Individually, words are very crude low resolution descriptors. English is actually pretty nuanced because we've inherited so many words for the same things form

Individually, words are very crude low resolution descriptors. English is actually pretty nuanced because we've inherited so many words for the same things form different languages, and assigned them slightly different meanings, but it's still a big problem. I notice this particularly in discussions relating to philosophy, people very often talk right past each other because they're assuming different meanings of the words they're using.