Ah, yeah, that makes sense. People tend to get attached to simple and wrong ideas like that. I mean, it’s reasonably accurate to say “some words sometimes get some of their meaning from definitions, but it’s far from universal”, but not “all words get all their meaning from definitions only”.
Ah, yeah, that makes sense. People tend to get attached to simple and wrong ideas like that. I mean, it’s reasonably accurate to say “some words sometimes get some of their meaning from definitions, but it’s far from universal”, but not “all words get all their meaning from definitions only”.