The term: namespace is for hopelessly biased terms, using which is dangerous and error-prone, or propaganda or at least so strongly endorses one ontological metaphor or point of view that to use it at all, makes it not possible to frame a widely accepted and undisputed issue statement using those terms within it.
It also lists a few that should be very closely controlled and not used except in their specified sense.
The following are deprecated:
Others have been rendered obsolete by shifts in technology, which make some capabilities obvious or ubiquitous:
Finally, some prepositions very clearly bias perception and need to be closely controlled (but not avoided):
This page helps specify living ontology and is CC-by-nc-sa by Efficient Civics Guild.
It also lists a few that should be very closely controlled and not used except in their specified sense.
deprecated
The following are deprecated:
political propaganda to make one's opponents seem wrong on specific issues:
- term:Intelligent Design
- term:War on Terror
- term:Pro-Life
- term:homicide bomber
- term:animal enterprise terrorism
insidious euphemisms:
econonism
Some terms focus narrowly on economic issues but are no less political for that, maybe more so for trying to hide their political implications:- term:economic sense
- term:economic sustainability
- term:fiscal sustainability
- term:Freedom Day
- term:intellectual property
- term:intellectual capital
pejorative
Others commonly abused to frame issues by m/any side/s in a debate to make the other side wrong...- term:Unamerican
- term:Uncanadian
- term:personal attack
- term:fundamentalism
- term:religious wrong
- term:backpedal
- term:crusade
- term:Myopic Paradigm
- term:special interest
laudatory
...or make one's own side seem correct:senseless
Some are just operationally insensible, so inherently relative as to be useless, or impossible to objectively define except case by case:- term:true cost accounting
- term:green computing
- term:illegal
- term:idealism
- term:organic
- term:fascist
- term:anarchy
- term:cost
obsolete
Others have been rendered obsolete by shifts in technology, which make some capabilities obvious or ubiquitous:
ambiguous
Some are just sloppy and ambiguous:controlled
Finally, some prepositions very clearly bias perception and need to be closely controlled (but not avoided):
- term:as
- term:posed
- term:on
- term:at
- term:for
- term:by
- term:from
- term:in
- term:before
- term:of
- term:to
- term:over
- term:under
This page helps specify living ontology and is CC-by-nc-sa by Efficient Civics Guild.