You are splitting hairs. We don't need to stick to the precise dictionary meaning of various terms. Sometimes you gain more insight when you don't do that. It'

You are splitting hairs. We don't need to stick to the precise dictionary meaning of various terms. Sometimes you gain more insight when you don't do that. It's a pity you're getting down voted, because I believe your concern is genuine and confusion valid. But precise language is very important here, epistemologically speaking - just because we sometime make decisions based on heuristics doesn't mean those heuristics are good models of reality. The distinction between making arguments to collectively determine "what model is representative of reality" and using heuristics to decide what is a convenient way to spend one's time are very different things.