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“What you don’t understand you can make mean anything.” Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
“Names with indeterminate connotation are not to be confounded with names which have more than one connotation, that is to say, ambiguous words.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the Pace; Encrease of Science, the Way; and the Benefit of mankind, the End.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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