I believe this study is called "semantics," ¿No?

"The map is not the terrritory, the word is not the thing referred to."

I like to think I'm liberal, but it annoys me to be called A Liberal. I'm also pretty conservative, but not A Conservative.

Words like "eco-terrorist" and "Christian" are generally used as judgrments rather than identifiers.

But it's hard to deal with words when words are the only tool you have to deal with them.

clint