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Oh okay so they're just redefining words that are already well-defined so they can make fancy claims.
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.
No. It's not standard at all, especially when the goal is overtly misleading.
Maybe one or both disciplines is promoting bullshit.
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