My friend, you made that point quite well the other day with a thread here at FR. The discussion that followed your post was stimulating, wasn't it?
Yes, quite. It is known in Catholic circles as the Smith principle, after Msgr. William B. Smith of the Dunwoody Theeological Seminary in Yonkers. I appropriated it from him, not sure if he coined it or appropriated it from some other sharp wit. It is so very appropriate for this age in which we live, an age marked, more than anything else, by a complete eclipse of reason. And reason has been eclipsed at least in part due to verbal engineering.
Sorry to be redundant on this thread, but it is a phrase worth repeating at times.