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Questions of the kind "What's the name for a X that satisfies property Y?"

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What do shortest-path algorithms actually calculate?

If there are no repeated vertices or edges, this terminology would call it a simple path. So "Shortest Paths" algorithms refers to this definition. … In your terminology: one could say these algorithms find shortest walks, not shortest paths, but the only case where the two are different is when there is a negative cycle, where no shortest walk exists …
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What does "game theory" cover and how should it be called?

If we include the larger research community -- economics, computer science, social sciences, business schools, operations research, etc -- I think there really is a partition between combinatorial gam …
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Giving the same concept different names in the same paper

First, I agree with the commenters in not understanding your objection to giving different names to the same mathematical objects if they are used to model different phenomena. The terms "position" an …
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