• catloaf@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Oh okay so they’re just redefining words that are already well-defined so they can make fancy claims.

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      2 months ago

      Well-defined for casual use is very different than well-defined for scholarly research. It’s standard practice to take colloquial vocab and more narrowly define it for use within a scientific discipline. Sometimes different disciplines will narrowly define the same word two different ways, which makes interdisciplinary communication pretty funny.