Artifact”, Positionality”, “Integrous”, etc.: Where do these words come from?
Artifact is used in its customary but unique medical definition as something that is “foreign, false, or misleading.” In medicine, an artifact is a fault that could be mistaken for the real, e.g., a residual stain or a speck of dust that, under the microscope, could be mistaken for a bacterium. The use of the term is therefore not the more common one that means an archeological object of antiquity; in this case, it means “spurious.”Integrous: A person with integrity. (From The Oxford English Dictionary [Second Edition], defined as “the adjectival form of ‘integrity’, meaning ‘marked by integrity’.)Positionality refers to the viewpoint from which a person makes a judgment or determination about a thing, person, idea, concept, etc., or forms an opinion about something. The plural form may include a group of opinions about general topics or a specific topic. One might substitute “position” but it does not “work” quite as well.
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