• of essentially contested concept was proposed in 1956 by Walter Bryce Gallie. Essentially contested concepts involve agreed on abstract concepts or phrases...
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  • interpretations of concepts central to their own ideology (ex. sexual deviance, personal responsibility and terrorism). Essentially contested concept Euphemism...
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    Weasel word (redirect from Weasel concept)
    2% against, and 90% indifferent. Ambivalence Concept creep Corporate jargon Essentially contested concept Filler (linguistics) Fnord If-by-whiskey Linguistic...
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    Religion (redirect from Religious concepts)
    consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. It is an essentially contested concept. Different religions may or may not contain various elements...
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    experiences and relationships. Home has been described as an "essentially contested concept". Common connotations of home are espoused by both those with...
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  • policy and the freedom of the press, representing an "essentially contested concept". The concept is often used to denote, declare, or claim independence...
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  • for absorbing meanings that viewers want to impose upon it." Essentially contested concept Glittering generality The Symbolic Dangling pointer Dead metaphor...
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    is best understood as an essentially contested concept. As he argues, "it seems that it is this very nature of the concept that has allowed, on the one...
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    Decision problem Discrete mathematics Double entendre Equivocation Essentially contested concept Fallacy Formal fallacy Golden hammer Informal fallacy Pleonasm...
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    Political legitimacy (category Political concepts)
    the term proper—political legitimacy—is philosophically an essentially contested concept that facilitates understanding the different applications and...
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  • political theorist, and philosopher. He put forth the notion of essentially contested concepts. W. B. Gallie was born in Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire, near...
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  • Braman & Gastil (2006) Thompson, M. (2011) “Sustainability is an essentially contested concept”. S.A.P.I.EN.S. 4 (1) Boholm (2003), p. 66. Douglas (1986) Boholm...
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  • Amphiboly Aberrant decoding Ambiguous grammar Dog-whistle politics Essentially contested concept Heterosemy Homograph Interlingual homograph Idiom Metonymy Monosemy...
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  • Social justice (category Concepts in political philosophy)
    Environmental injustice that occurs within a racialized context Essentially contested concept – Problem in philosophy Global justice – Issue in political...
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    represented in mass media. Essentially contested concept Loaded language Propaganda Jasinski, J. (2001). Sourcebook on rhetoric: Key concepts in contemporary rhetorical...
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  • Vagueness (category Concepts in the philosophy of language)
    filter makes it possible to know only little but exactly. Essentially contested concept Fuzzy concept Imprecise language Obfuscation Relevance Unconstitutional...
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  • fallacies Definition Fallacies of definition Dogwhistle politics Essentially contested concept Loaded language Poisoning the well Stipulative definition The...
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  • it is indeed hard to avoid the conclusion that Europe is an essentially contested concept." Cf. also Davies (1996:15); Berting (2006:51). Cf. Jordan-Bychkov...
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    Leadership (category Social concepts)
    or organizations. "Leadership" is a contested term. Specialist literature debates various viewpoints on the concept, sometimes contrasting Eastern and...
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  • infrequently between simultaneously producing mathematicians." Essentially contested concept – Problem in philosophy Semantic change – Evolution of a word's...
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    contradiction Discourse ethics – Argument focused on ethics Essentially contested concept – Problem in philosophy Forensics – Application of science to...
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    it is indeed hard to avoid the conclusion that Europe is an essentially contested concept." Cf. also Davies (1996:15); Berting (2006:51). Cf. Jordan-Bychkov...
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    Birkie, Seyoum Eshetu (February 2018). "Circular economy as an essentially contested concept". Journal of Cleaner Production. 175: 544–552. Bibcode:2018JCPro...
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  • the region. Maritime terrorism, like terrorism itself, is an essentially contested concept. Because there are over 100 definitions of terrorism from multiple...
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  • so unhappy", as Stephen Dedalus called them – "power" is an "essentially contested concept", meaning that people with different values and beliefs are...
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  • various interpretations. Sustainability has been called an essentially contested concept. What sustainability is, what its goals should be, and how these...
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  • Critical mathematics pedagogy – Liberation-focused math education Essentially contested concept – Problem in philosophy Ethical calculus – Application of mathematics...
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  • To be sure the concept of maritime security is an essentially contested concept, or what Cornwall calls a buzz-word, meaning a concept with vagueness...
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    disagreements. Betrayal, Margalit says, is an essentially contested concept, "that is to say, in all its uses the concept of traitor is always subject to dispute...
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  • Political Theory Vol. 5, No.2, May 2006. "Is Liberalism Now an Essentially Contested Concept?" New Political Science Vol. 27, No. 4, December 2005. "Recognizing...
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