Ah, I see. So, sure, you’re welcome to your lexical intuitions, and you’re welcome to talk about “manipulation” while referring to the fuzzy concept your lexical intuitions point to. That’s what most people do in casual conversation. And when talking to someone whose intuitions differ from ours we either get derailed into discussing what “manipulation” really means, or we find some other way to talk about the concepts in question, or we fail to communicate at all, and that works more or less OK for our purposes much of the time.
Your original comment made it sound like you were trying to be more rigorous than that… sorry to confuse the issue.
Ah, I see. So, sure, you’re welcome to your lexical intuitions, and you’re welcome to talk about “manipulation” while referring to the fuzzy concept your lexical intuitions point to. That’s what most people do in casual conversation. And when talking to someone whose intuitions differ from ours we either get derailed into discussing what “manipulation” really means, or we find some other way to talk about the concepts in question, or we fail to communicate at all, and that works more or less OK for our purposes much of the time.
Your original comment made it sound like you were trying to be more rigorous than that… sorry to confuse the issue.