You wrote:

"Boy, is THAT a load of horseapples, or what? I have said elsewhere that mental fog is a major weapon of the liberal.

"Of course most words have exact meanings, even if they are not "mathematically" exact, whatever the hell that means."



Mathematical precision means that the symbol 2 always has the same value. No matter what the equation, no matter what the position in the equation of the symbol, its value remains static, unchanged.

Words do not have this precision. Some words are quite vague and/or ambiguous in that there is no unversal understanding of what the symbol means, nor does the symbol's value necessarily stay the same as the context changes.

Formal logic - your load of horseapples - is an effective tool for detecting invalid arguments. One method for doing this is identifying vague and/or ambiguous words in an argument.

Perhaps you should look into it. If you do, I think you'll rather quickly discover that the concept of ambiguity is one of the underlying fundamentals of this entire field of study. Ambiguity is also the basis for many disputes, and it accounts for the proliferation of lawyers, whose job it is to eliminate the vague, ambiguous language in contracts, for example.

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