It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.
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When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.
If people think they can elicit from me whatever terms they want, they are mistaken.
We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.
In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.
To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.
Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.
Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.
That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning.
When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.
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