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Karl Fogel (kfogel@kfogel.org)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 05:32:42 JST Karl Fogel
A pattern I've noticed:
For many fields of specialization, the core field-specific concepts that outsiders assume are well-defined and unambiguous to specialists are instead, to those within the field, often fuzzy, ill-defined, highly subject to debate, and in some cases even considered to be of questionable ontological utility.
Examples: "species" for biologists; "languages" and "words" for linguists.