Tabooing Your Words has the purpose of removing a disagreement about word definitions from these discussions. The substitution you made does not help, since now the discussion could continue in the direction of arguing about what the average person thinks of the word (which is pretty close to the definition of definition). (This feels close to Fighting the Hypothetical.)
(Am I intuiting this right that you’re not sure you could find a proper substitution that the others could not prove bad at capturing what you wanted to say by using it to prove your point wrong?)
(At this point I’m half expecting a reply from someone along the lines of “This kind of psychological analysis isn’t going to make you many friends.”)
Tabooing Your Words has the purpose of removing a disagreement about word definitions from these discussions.
Tabooing your words is used when you personally are disagreeing with someone and you and them may not mean the same thing by the word. Tabooing your words is not used when discussing whether the word they use is misleading an audience. It doesn’t actually matter that the proponents may think that “medical” means “relieves anxiety” thus qualifying recreational marijuana (as well as tobacco and alcohol) as medical; they know very well that the audience won’t interpret it that way.
Tabooing Your Words has the purpose of removing a disagreement about word definitions from these discussions. The substitution you made does not help, since now the discussion could continue in the direction of arguing about what the average person thinks of the word (which is pretty close to the definition of definition). (This feels close to Fighting the Hypothetical.)
(Am I intuiting this right that you’re not sure you could find a proper substitution that the others could not prove bad at capturing what you wanted to say by using it to prove your point wrong?)
(At this point I’m half expecting a reply from someone along the lines of “This kind of psychological analysis isn’t going to make you many friends.”)
Tabooing your words is used when you personally are disagreeing with someone and you and them may not mean the same thing by the word. Tabooing your words is not used when discussing whether the word they use is misleading an audience. It doesn’t actually matter that the proponents may think that “medical” means “relieves anxiety” thus qualifying recreational marijuana (as well as tobacco and alcohol) as medical; they know very well that the audience won’t interpret it that way.
No.