For those who appreciate the vast allowances language gives to one who desires to express; a majority of them also are those who ridicule the justice words and ideas give to the actuality of a matter. Say, nothing can be explained in totality, and to essay out a concept is reducing the former's weight and impact. However, in aid to producing the expressions, jargons and definations have dominated for a more apt presentation of the subject at hand. The language becomes more understandable (in the deeper sense) when the correct words are used, and thus, terms are seemingly vital towards the painting of any word portrait of this like.

Still, terms struggle with exactness quite a lot. Afterall, they are also but words, simply decorated with the exclusitivity of extra recognition. At the intital stage, terms are expected to be understood for most of the time, they form the bulk of the concept creation. (whereby the term constructs the leaves of the main tree which the portrait branches off from)

An easy example: To 'run' as in running a program. This term, is recongised as a computer jargon and can be used quite simply in any mecanichal operation of electrical equipment. But to say very simply, 'run the program' gives an extreme vageness to the process. If we understand 'run' to mean undergo an operation whereby a task is completed by the device, we must then notice which button we are pressing and how devoted that button is in fufiling the 'run'. Then we must decide when is the program actually 'running'. Here, we are presented to many scenarios like when the game menu screen is showing, when the splash screens are in progress, when the music starts, when an actual game is started etc. And even then, we might include those options as the trigger to 'run' the program, instead of considering it as just a double-click. (Of it may not even be so, ignoring the alternatives like the 'Enter' Key, used to reach the game loading ie intial decesion making time for the 'running process', the input of the password to access the game proper might even be included as a 'run'. This whole example of course faces much more struggles then the above dilemas, and reveals to some extent the weaknesses terms have.

Well, defintely the above term is not something life threatening to consider anyway, but it does serve enough purpose to show the vagueness someone portrays when using a term. Because so much background information and assumed knowledge is supported by that term, the use of it hovers over fuzziness and unclarity. Yet, terms are suppose to simplify. They are expected to give one a better grasp on the abstractness of the subject matter. We could talk about the various different implications a term can have to a person. We could talk about the various conntations a term carries in certain fields or situations. We could talk about the ways terms distract one from the actual richness of the concept because of pre-concieved ideas regarding the term that may not be true, simply because it is difficult to be understood anyway.

Lets explore a term that carries a concept behind it, say... Fate. An idea that things are fated means that one is not in control of their own destinty and it sort of is simply scripted on in a scroll. One vageness that comes into this, is say if one holds that he does not believe in fate but believes in a God who will interevne. If we were to put aside our inability to understand how the workings of his intervention takes place (as he is in charge of time, and to consider that as a factor as well pretty much destroys the whole concept of 'fate'. Or rather, confuses it.) , is that not fate as well? I guess I don't have to say more since the rest of the implications and debative points can be easily sieved out, but the main point is that it is pretty ridiculous to argue over this term called 'fate'. By the start, it is (and has been) a created concept whereby a meaning is attached onto it. By mild usage, and major expoundation, it has become a key pillar of some faiths and beliefs and a philosophy to those demanding pattern.

And yet in the end, its still but a term. A simple word contributes to an essay in order to construct it in a more simpler fashion, but still lives on with the weakness of 'words' in that they remain that unclear.

Terms are perhaps useful to essay, and give quick, practical illlustrative power to the piece. But in terms of meaning, we need more that to gauge and percieve.


"It is very sad to try to reach an objective using the wrong means. All the effort and time would be totally wasted." -- Bible Teacher, Primary 3 class

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