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Terminology for those new to Taking Children Seriously
Anyone puzzled by how certain words are used on this site might like to read these posts, which include explanatory conjectures about why some of the word usages are so contentious:
🧠 What do you mean by ‘creativity’?
💭 Terminology troubles
☸️ What do you mean by ‘fallible’?
🌀 What do you mean by ‘problem’?
💠 What does ‘active’ mean if not ‘preferred’?
🍏 What do you mean by ‘knowledge’?
🌕 What do you mean by ‘theory’?
✴️ What do you mean by ‘enacting a theory’?
♥️ What do you mean by ‘noncoercive’? What is the difference between coercion and ‘non-coercion’?
💡 Clarification of what I mean by ‘coercion’
👿 The quest for a euphemism for ‘coercion’
🧬 What is a ‘meme’—‘antirational’ or otherwise?!
🔷 What do you mean by ‘having an agenda’ for your children?
🥶 What do you mean by ‘coercionist’?
🧩 ‘Influence’ versus ‘coercion’
😬 ‘Coercion’—the meaning of the word
👩🏻🦰 How is the word ‘parenting’ not taking children seriously?
👹 What do you mean by ‘paternalism’?
“I must always remember the principle of never arguing about words and their meanings, because such arguments are specious and insignificant.”
– Karl Popper, 2002, Unended Quest, Chapter 6: My First Philosophical Failure: The Problem of Essentialism, p. 14
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