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Full Idea
Sharing a technical vocabulary is to share a tidy collection of assumptions. Reliance on that vocabulary serves to foreclose discussion of those assumptions.
Gist of Idea
Using a technical vocabulary actually prevents discussion of the presuppositions
Source
John Heil (The Universe as We Find It [2012], Pref)
Book Ref
Heil,John: 'The Universe as We Find It' [OUP 2012], p.-4
A Reaction
Love it! I am endlessly frustrated by papers that launch into a discussion using a terminology that is riddled with dubious prior assumptions. And that includes common terms like 'property', as well as obscure neologisms.