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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
That's correct.
I think we can only go so far in using words to examine words.
I'm always aware of those limits. And I think it would be most useful for us to accept a simple list of definitions. Hence, my preference for "common usage"
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which begs yet another question.
of all the possible deployments of language, why choose "common usage" which is a standardized (by one authority) version of a language that some odd fraction of the world's population speaks? what faith prompts the belief that that particular deployment is best, and is beyond criticism?
if you're so convinced that language is the limitation of thought, why chose to narrow the language?