Words can be confusing, creating the illusion of disagreement or agreement. What a word means is also very contextual. The following tables define what is meant by key terms used herein. Quoting Bakhtin, the word in language is half someone else's.
| TERM | DEFINITION |
|---|---|
| acculturation | a process by which a person acquires the culture of the society |
| affect, n. | an object-less or undirected emotion |
| belief, n. | a fact adhered to, or accepted as true |
| culture, n. | a system of rules for behaviour of a social group, how things happen |
| counterfactual | contrary to known or agreed facts; in comparison to a hypothetical state |
| discourse | expression in words, the vocabulary and associated semantics whose use for a specific topic define a particular group |
| emotion | a general class of consciously accessible neuro-psychological states (anger, anxiety, fear, happiness, sadness) directed or undirected |
| enculturation | the process by which a person adopts the behaviour patterns of the culture |
| event | real occurrence of social risk |
| fact | 1. brute: an objective consensus on a fundamental reality 2. institutional: a specific instance of a general constitutive rule |
| feeling | individual, conscious experience of an emotion |
| iatrogenic | of adverse outcome, induced by the words or actions intended as mitigation. |
| identify | establish which one or thing; c.f. identifcation being an instance of identify |
| knowledge | awareness about something; justified (true) belief |
| lemma | the canonical (most basic) form of an inflected word, e.g. run for run, ran, running |
| lexeme | a lemma, referring to a specific language, subject, design or group of people |
| lexicon | a specific set of lexemes type of vocabulary, referring to a specific language, subject, design or or group of people |
| memory, n. | (uncountable) a process to re-present in some form a prior experience, or construct in some form an expectation |
| objective | of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality based on individual experience and general concensus c.f. subjective |
| principle | guiding belief |
| representation | something that stands-for, or counts-as, something else to someone else - all in some context |
| rhetoric | persuasive language, often with exaggerated style |
| risk, n. | possible error in prediction or perception of an adverse event, process or outcome social: risk associated with a (forming) group doing something untoward, to some other group or thing, based upon shared belief(s) |
| rule, n. | 1. constitutive: a guideline constituting a new form of socially acceptable behaviour 2. regulative: a prescription to regulate socially acceptable behaviour |
| semantics, n. | the meaning of words, a subfield of semiotics |
| semiosis, n. | any process, or use, of signs to communicate meaning |
| semiotics, n. | study of sign process for communication of meaning |
| sign | anything that communicates intentional or unintentional meaning to the interpreter |
| sign-semiotics | something (signifier, sign-vehicle) that means something else (signifed, object) to someone else (interpreter) in some context |
| social | involving the communication and acting upon of commonly held (social) facts |
| subjective | experienced by an individual mentally and not directly verifiable by others; formed or pertaining to personal mindsets or experience |
| true, adj. | conforming to a rule, fact or pattern, to reality |
| uncertainty | (uncountable) a psychological state, a feeling about the unknown |
| vocabulary | the set of names for things, events, and ideas in a language, a collection of words, often explained, of a particular field, or for a specific purpose |
* compiled from various sources including, with gratitude, wiktionary.org and plato.stanford.edu