Term:is

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A term is just that, a rhetorical term or phrase or slogan or device that is not accepted as objectively describing any phenomena at all.

For example, the picket terms that appear on protest signs are often terms accepted by only one faction, e.g. term:pro-life or term:anti-choice or term:War on Terrorism.

As another example, the commercial taglines such as the term:fair and balanced have no particular meaning except in the context in which they are commandeered or controlled. Keeping them separate from the generic namespace helps to separate the debate about the meaning, or attempts to assign meaning, from the commonly understood meaning, which should not be dominated by these control attempts.

While terms used for commerical and political gain very often deserve deconstruction and examination, they should not ever be mistaken for an honestly held political position described in neutral language nor for a valid argument that supports a position.

But neither can they be ignored, since politics runs on conceptual metaphor and the use of colourful terms and rhetoric is necessarily a core component of debate. If nothing else it keeps people interested, involved, and fighting.

See also issue/position/argument. The use of a term subspace is recommended by the Efficient Civics Guild to keep rhetoric out of main namespace.