On 1/12/2015 5:01 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Like "universe" meant a tortoise on the top of another tortoise, except that in the field of theology, the corresponding "tortoise" has been made into a dogma.

And evidence came to change that meaning. If someone now wrote using "universe" to mean "a tortoise on the top of another tortoise" he would be thought either crazy or guilty of deliberate obfuscation.

Brent

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