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<blockquote>"Descriptive" in science is a pejorative, almost always preceded by "merely," and typically applied to the array of [[Ilkka Niiniluoto]] has used the terms "descriptive sciences" and "[[design science]]s" as an updated version of t ...

...terms]] (''quaternio terminorum'') – a categorical syllogism that has four terms.{{sfn|Pirie|2006|pp=133–136}} ...syllogism that is invalid because its major term is not [[distribution of terms|distributed]] in the major premise but distributed in the conclusion.{{sfn| ...

...ular]] activities.<ref name="Diggs-Brown2011p48"/> The term began taking a pejorative or negative connotation in the mid-19th century, when it was used in the po Some similar non-English terms retain some neutral or positive connotations. For example, in official part ...

...ded|date=September 2020}} through the 1600s, the concept of innovation was pejorative – the term was an [[Early Modern English|early-modern]] synonym for "rebell ...valuation of policies and procedures with accountability and efficiency in terms of time and money. In its first year, CitiStat saved the city $13.2 million ...

...r, the 20th-century idea of "fuzzy concepts" proposes that "somewhat vague terms" can be operated with, since we can explicate and define the variability of ..., the gradations of applicable meaning of a fuzzy concept are described in terms of ''quantitative'' relationships defined by logical operators. Such an app ...

...iling in court, asking the court to hold him in contempt for violating the terms of a settlement agreement with such a tweet; the accusation was disputed by ...announced a policy change on the X platform, stating that X users who use terms such as "[[decolonization]]" and "[[from the river to the sea]]," or simila ...