09-21-2005, 01:01 AM
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--Pete
Minionman,Sep 20 2005, 05:12 PM Wrote:Edit: I made up a rule on the Amazon basin that said "When people get to arguing over definitions, the argument's over". I guess this thread is kind of drying up.Yeah, a lot of people think that arguing about semantics is a waste of time. However, if we cannot decide just what it is we are arguing about, then that is precisely when the argument becomes a waste of time. If one of us uses 'liberal' to mean 'rabid pro-choice advocate' and the other to mean 'rabid anti-religion advocate' and we don't inform each other of our respective definitions, then we are not having a conversation. We're merely carrying on two simultaneous monologues.
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--Pete
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