Dan Rowden wrote:I thought not, which is the problem with the whole discussion. The participants need to define the term to make this discussion meaningful.
I suspect in doing so, the problem will resolve itself, but let's see.....
Do you not know what language is? As far as I am aware it means only one thing -- a set of define words or symbols used between people for communication. Terms only need to be defined if they are used in a non-standard way or have different meanings.
This actually brings us to an interesting point though. I could in turn ask you to define "define" first. Can we fully define anything? All our definitions are based on more terms that need defining. If we tried to define some arbitrary term we would have to define every term, define all the terms in those definitions, etc.
I actually don't think it would be possible to fully define an abstract term like "absolute".
