Language and Logic (General)

by romansh , Thursday, April 03, 2014, 06:00 (3666 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Romansh: While I am a traditionalist and try to use older meanings of the word, I have no problem with someone using a word in a different sense to what I am using so long as it is clear which sense it is being used.
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> > There is no need to accuse anyone of twisting words or having biases. Though for the latter we all do that to some degree.
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> There is certainly a time and place for relaxed definitions. But in the context of the discussion we were having, using both definitions is intellectually dishonest, whether you intended it to be or not, and you know it.-Here we go again Tony ... I am being intellectually dishonest now.-I used a word ... I very carefully gave a sense of how I was using it (because I knew it had other senses) and I am being intellectually dishonest?