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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (332430)	12/21/2002 11:28:44 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I think the meaning words is very slippery, since our thinking about words all occurs in our unique brains, with each brain processing the word a bit differently (and some processing them very differently). Imagine how different it would be to know a person's real thought, as opposed to the inexact representation of that thought in language. Of course that might cause a lot of problems. Anyway, I find many of the arguments on SI boil down to a simple misunderstanding over which definition of a given word the people in the conversation are using.