[unspun]

I'm with VR on the need for concrete imagery. Abstractions are fine as long as they summarize concrete objects, events or relationships.

The very language you use would assume that there are relationships which are not so "concrete." If one cannot use abstractions for these, what can one use?

[js1138]

The very language you use ...

I guess I've been caught. But in a sense, this proves my point. When you depart form the concrete, it's so easy to start talking about the way things are phrased rather than whether statements are true.