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The Expert Language Fallacy

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Date: 24 Mar 2024 11:16:29 GMT
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by: Stefan Ram - Sun, 24 Mar 2024 11:16 UTC

This actually developed from a thread in another newsgroup, but since
there might be some English-language content, I also post it here:

I asked a chatbot,

|Is there a name for the fallacy that a word must have the
|meaning in general English that it has in some scientific
|terminology?
me (Stefan Ram) asking a chatbot (2024),

he answered:

|Based on the search results, there does not appear to be a
|specific named fallacy for the assumption that a word must
|have the same meaning in general English as it does in some
|scientific terminology. However, this type of fallacy could
|be considered a form of the referential fallacy.
| |The referential fallacy is described as "assuming that all
|words refer to existing things and that the meaning of words
|resides within the words themselves, as opposed to words
|possibly referring to no real object or that the meaning
|comes from how they are used."
| |In the case of a word having a different meaning in
|scientific vs. general usage, the fallacy would be assuming
|that the scientific meaning is the only valid or "real"
|meaning of the word, rather than recognizing that the meaning
|can vary depending on the context. This is a flawed
|assumption about the nature of language and meaning.
| what the chatbot answered (2024).

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