Defining terms
Mike Findlay <[email protected]>
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From an Althouse blog post, (posted email exchange about free speech, which is very interesting), "Defining terms is a huge part of argument. The notion that a term means what would come in first in a vote on the definition is absurd. What would liberalism or feminism or equality or fairness or any number of important terms mean if the meaning was frozen at the current first definition. Even the dictionary doesn't work that way: there are multiple uses for the same word." Took me back to the "sacred" hullaballoo. If you are interested - Link to the Althouse post in full: http://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/03/bob-wrightann-althouse-email-exchange.html#more Mike F. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot