That’s not really how word usages spread in English. Policing usage is almost a guaranteed failure. What would work much better would be for you to use these words consistently with your ideals, and then if doing so helps you achieve things or write things that people want to mimic, they will also mimic your words. Compare to how this community has adopted all manner of jargon due to the influence of EY’s weirdly-written but thought-reshaping Sequences! SSC is now spreading Yvain’s linguistic habits among us, too, in a similar way: by creating new associations between them and some good ideas.
What would work much better would be for you to use these words consistently with your ideals
Yes, indeed. And I hope I have and do.
However, how would I ever know if my use of “reality” is exactly what others mean by “universe” or “nature”, if I didn’t ask the question. How do you put reality together? Where does meaurement fit in? How does objectivity get accounted for? What does such a view have in common with physics and philosophy contemporarily and historically?
I guess that’s where I was headed with this discussion. Compare the structure of reality I’ve come up with to others here.
That’s not really how word usages spread in English. Policing usage is almost a guaranteed failure. What would work much better would be for you to use these words consistently with your ideals, and then if doing so helps you achieve things or write things that people want to mimic, they will also mimic your words. Compare to how this community has adopted all manner of jargon due to the influence of EY’s weirdly-written but thought-reshaping Sequences! SSC is now spreading Yvain’s linguistic habits among us, too, in a similar way: by creating new associations between them and some good ideas.
Yes, indeed. And I hope I have and do.
However, how would I ever know if my use of “reality” is exactly what others mean by “universe” or “nature”, if I didn’t ask the question. How do you put reality together? Where does meaurement fit in? How does objectivity get accounted for? What does such a view have in common with physics and philosophy contemporarily and historically?
I guess that’s where I was headed with this discussion. Compare the structure of reality I’ve come up with to others here.