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Is there a recognized topic in philosophy regarding the fallaciousness of debating what the ‘correct’ definition of a word is?
Or, what the defining properties of some thing are.
For example, I might say, “Socialism is a government in which such-and-such happens,” and someone else might say, “No, socialism is when a society ...
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What are factual propositions?
I've been reading up on epistemology, after having studied a bit of logic. Given that, I am in a good (or at least better) position to understand a proposition, and it's properties. One such property ...
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