[Zero Sum]

Yes, because communicating requires determination of common references. without common references, it's easy to end up talking past each other.

I think that's one of the major sources of misunderstanding on the Religion Forum, and between different denominations or even religions in general: People use the same words to mean diffent things.

[Mad Dawg]

It's interesting. At my ridiculous college the first semester "Laboratory" was about measurement. We actually tried to MAKE plane surfaces, straight edges, scales, primitive logorhythmic slide rules, and at least to understand a device with which we could compute the speed of light and such like. It was there that the conversation arose. But, yeah, we were all a bunch of philosophes wanna-bes.

And I htink the virtue of The Trivium - the "three ways" of grammar logic, and rhetoric, is that they address directly this problem.

So after all this study I managed to become completely incomprehensible! Who says collitch is a waste of time?

[GoLightly]

I think that's one of the major sources of misunderstanding on the Religion Forum, and between different denominations or even religions in general: People use the same words to mean diffent things.

I agree & most of us speak a common language. Throw words of different languages into the mix, where a translation can only approximate an idea, discovery of common references gets even trickier.