I’m looking for a word — I’m sure I read it somewhere, but it’s not commonly used — which describes the situation where a theory (or something similar) makes sense in your own head but not to others.
A good example is a poem or something you wrote, something amateurish. It makes perfect sense to you, because you know what you are writing about, but others may find no meaning whatsoever in it.
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Maybe the word you're trying to remember is intuitive.
For example, My proposal makes intuitive sense to me, and to other people in my field that I've shown it to, but I'm having trouble explaining it in a way the stupid reviewers will understand.