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[doctor_aquinas]

"If you can't explain your position without ending up in the google results of the people you disagree with..."

i.e., you are dependent on those you disagree with for your terminology.

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[maeuschen]

Is it absolutely required that either side own the terminology? Perhaps your enemy depends on you?

Man may join phoneme to phoneme, but Meaning does not depend on the arrangement of sounds for her existence.

[doctor_aquinas]

It proves nothing, of course. But it is a reasonable indicator of robustness--thus, I would call "secular humanism" a more robust attempt at a philosophy than "atheism." "Atheism" has an anemic, frail quality about it.

[maeuschen]

I see. Just as each field of Science has developed its own particular jargon to enable practitioners to more succinctly communicate, so a field of Philosophy without a private lexicon is most likely devoid of depth. Having your own terms may not prove veracity, but it indicates you spent some time thinking.

Then again, sometimes terms are used when thought would be better applied. See also: omg wtf lol!1! r u rotfl 2? l8r g, bbs, afk...