Steve asked:
What do you mean by "proper use of terms"?
dmb says:
You cannot be serious.
If the dictionary defines one term as the opposite of the other and you use
those terms as if they were equal to each other, for example, then you have
misused the terms. You do that a lot. To say that indeterminism is a form of
determinism is very like like saying cold is a form of hot. It's like saying up
is a form of down.
If the dictionary says free will is the ability to make choices but you say
making choices has nothing to do with freewill, then you are misusing the terms
"free will" and "choice". You do that a lot.
See, the thing is that language is a public property. It can't function without
a certain level of stability of meaning. There is no such thing as your own
private meaning. So if you want to communicate with other speakers of english,
then you don't want to use terms improperly. You don't want to defy the
dictionaries or encyclopedia if you want others to understand you, but you do
that a lot anyway.
This is a very seriously failure, you know? Using words properly gives you
power and freedom to express yourself, gives you the chance to find meaning in
the words of others. As Pirsig says, definitions are the foundation of reason.
You can't reason without them. It seems to me that most of your posts clearly
demonstrate this assertion. I mean, there is a direct connection between the
nonsense you produce and the way you constantly misuse the operative terms.
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