Engineered concepts
As vs a “natural” concept. A “natural concept” will arise organically to capture a cluster, and is potentially independently rederived multiple times: any variety of tribes interacting with tigers would independently come up with “tiger” concept.
An engineered concept is a concept created for a reason other than to capture an existing cluster: be it to coordinate action,to launder legitimacy, to create ammunition for memetic warfare, to generate what it claims to describe (normative vs descriptive), to motivate different Orientation towards the same object, …
E.g.: “domestic terrorists”, “stochastic terrorism”, “fact checking”, “fake news”, “alternative facts”, “distributed ledger technology” → “Web3”, “steroids” → “peds”
