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If people think they can elicit from me whatever terms they want, they are mistaken.

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning.

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they don't want to look stupid.