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Not quite right. The make-your-own-assumptions way is actually a robust probe of the range of common language interpretations people have and common-denominator signals in them. We don't normally define everything in conversation, yet we talk.
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I deliberately avoid defining terms even when it would be easy to do so because I'm not interested in an intellectual response to a logical and clear proposition. I'm interested in instinctive responses to linguistic stimuli.
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