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I have opened this piece with ‘background’ to help prepare the reader for what follows. I had the pleasure of writing one of the perspectives in the first issue of this journal, and since then I have written a couple more (Stewart 1998, 2005; Elliott and Stewart 2017). The first issue piece was in a section labelled ‘Soapbox’. That label is an appropriate description of each of my previous contributions and also appropriate to what follows. My intention is to be provocative, beginning by saying I wish to challenge lazy thinking about the meaning of a term in use every day in academia but without much, if any, questioning of what is meant when it is used. If you are willing to be challenged, read on.