1 Dictionaries explain the uses of words.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:50 am
... the purpose of a dictionary is not to reveal the truth within reality rather etymology is based on popular usage of a word and its supposed meaning without regard to its truth and reality.
Because this is a Philosophy Forum where truth matters, we cannot ground the definition of whatever is in reality based on merely meanings in dictionaries.
How come you are so stupid not to understand the difference between what is required in Philosophy and what is provided as meanings of "words" in dictionaries.
2 Factual assertions are the only features of reality that have truth-value - that can be true or false.
3 The expression 'the truth within reality' is incoherent; outside language, reality is not linguistic, so it can have no truth-value.
4 The claim that a word can have a truth-value is incoherent; only factual assertions have truth-value.
5 We use the word 'define' in different ways. To define a word is to explain how we use it or could use it. By contrast, to define a feature of reality is to describe it - which is a completely different linguistic operation. (We can also describe a word in different ways, of course.)
6 We have to use language to talk about anything, including the ways we use language. We can't get outside language linguistically.