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Has anyone put together a translation dictionary? Because it seems to me that most of the terms are the same, and yet it is common to claim that relabeling is common without any sort of quantitative comparison.
It was many times debated on LW whether LW needlessly invents new words for already existing terms, or whether the new words label things that are not considered elsewhere.
I don't remember the outcomes of those debates. It seems to me they usually went like this:
"LW invents new words for many things that already have standard names."
"Can you give me five examples?"
"What LW calls X is called Y everywhere else." (provides only one example)
"Actually X is not the same concept as Y."
"Yes it is."
"It is not."
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So I guess at the end both sides believe they have won the debate.