There is water, H2O, drinking water, liquid, flood. Meanings can abstract away some details of a concrete thing from the real world, or add connotations that specialize it into a particular role. This is very useful in clear communication. The problem is sloppy or sneaky equivocation between different meanings, not the content of meanings getting to involve emotions, connotations, things not found in the real world, or combining them with concrete real world things into compound meanings.
There is water, H2O, drinking water, liquid, flood. Meanings can abstract away some details of a concrete thing from the real world, or add connotations that specialize it into a particular role. This is very useful in clear communication. The problem is sloppy or sneaky equivocation between different meanings, not the content of meanings getting to involve emotions, connotations, things not found in the real world, or combining them with concrete real world things into compound meanings.