I was just reading through some old LessWrong articles, in particular this one about making up categories:<p>&gt; ... Or you can see this in terms of the boundless human ability to make stuff up out of thin air and believe it because no one can prove it&#x27;s wrong.  As soon as you name the category, you can start making up stuff about it.  The named thing doesn&#x27;t have to be perceptible; it doesn&#x27;t have to exist; it doesn&#x27;t even have to be coherent. [1]<p>Came to mind with the way &#x27;mindfulness&#x27; and &#x27;concentration&#x27; were being used as &#x27;technical&#x27; terms. It felt slightly like Deepak Chopra. Why do articles like this get respect but something like, say, continental philosophy doesn&#x27;t? Is is simply because meditation is popular?<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lesswrong.com&#x2F;lw&#x2F;nx&#x2F;categorizing_has_consequences&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lesswrong.com&#x2F;lw&#x2F;nx&#x2F;categorizing_has_consequences&#x2F;</a>