Is there any light at the end of the tunnel?

In this rejoinder, the author reacts to five commentaries on his target art icle (Gagne, 1999) on the nature of abilities, gifts, and talents. He defen ds the worthiness of his quest to achieve some consensus among professional s in the field of gifted education over the definition of the core concepts of giftedness and talent and also, the validity and usefulness of his dist inction between high natural abilities (gifts) and high systematically deve loped ones (talents) in comparison to alternative proposals. He finally rei terates, in the light of the criticisms received, the basic arguments suppo rting his conviction that his own differentiation between giftedness and ta lent is the most appropriate and defensible solution to gifted education's terminological conundrum.