terminology
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The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms.
The terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry.
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All religions are based on obsolete terminology.
You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.
Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.
The notion of conditional probability is a basic tool of probability theory, and it is unfortunate that its great simplicity is somewhat obscured by a singularly clumsy terminology.
To tell the history of debt, then, is also necessarily to reconstruct how the language of the marketplace has come to pervade every aspect of human life-even to provide the terminology for the moral and religious voices ostensibly raised against it.
The fact that millions of people use the term "morality" as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of insight and compassion should not oblige us to merely accept their terminology until the end of time.