I can understand where you're coming from, but specialized fields always have terms with specialized meanings. For example, logic means something different to a programmer and a layperson; more wittily, you can tell a chemist by the way they pronounce unionized.I do understand all that and you both give an example of what I mean. There are too many (lousy choices of new) scientific words, terms, and definitions that confuse the working folks with unneeded complexities, multiple meanings, and confusion. A theory should remain a theory and not be defined sometimes as a theory and sometimes as a fact. Any theory that is the best and probable answer should have its own neutrality in the definitions. For example, Unexplained Phenomena--theory--thact--fact...thact being the probable fact still a theory. Crude example but does illustrate my meaning which allows the average worker to follow scientific advances which is vital to our evolutionary advancement as a species. Why call objects of the cosmos matter, supposedly derived from the word material, losing the average street worker and a majority of the popualtion?? Don't tell me that it doesn't matter because, as a matter of fact (and theory), it does. Atter, cosmic stuff, or some other word would of been a lot better but who thinks of the answer perhaps hidden among the philosophers, oil painters, sculpturers, and other classic artists imprisoned as worker slaves by the high society leadership.
As far as "new" words go, the use of the word theory in the scientific sense
(not in English, of course)
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