no that's ... really not true. Those terms all have precise meanings and express new concepts more succinctly. In programming, we call this abstraction. Yes, t

no that's ... really not true. Those terms all have precise meanings and express new concepts more succinctly. In programming, we call this abstraction. Yes, there are obviously people in academia that are full of crap: other people in academia -also- think they are full of crap. The problem for outsiders is that they're largely incapable of discerning between the earnest deep thinkers and the self-promoting charlatans. Charlatans are always louder, so without stopping to understand the topic at hand, you're almost certainly giving the most of your attention to those who least deserve it.