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Category Mistake
[!quote] Category mistake An example is a person learning that the game of cricket involves team spirit, and after being given a demonstration of each player's role, asking which player performs the "team spirit".
All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.
Overgeneralization via Hyperspecification
Or "inappropriate synecdoche1 "
Much of my issue with terminology can be blamed on overgeneralization via hyperspecification,
Proprietary eponyms (synonym: genericized trademark) are usually2 an example of such, and are prominent in electrical construction.3
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synecdoche: Using the name of a part to refer to the whole, or vice versa. ↩︎
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I'm not a complete pedant, Cadweld is a perfectly unambiguous substitution. "Caddy", "Hilti", and "Vitalink" are my real complaints, where the word only gets me marginally closer to creating a concrete image in my head.
The general acceptance of "band-aid" compared to the rejection of "coke" may be related. ↩︎
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See Database of American Proprietary Eponyms for examples. ↩︎