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Words are just noises. Think of them as pointers. They point to a concept in the brain. What concept that may be differs from person to person. But as long as t
by bildung 1y ago
Words are just noises. Think of them as pointers. They point to a concept in the brain. What concept that may be differs from person to person. But as long as the words point to something, they aren't used wrongly.
The idea that there was some point in history were the pointer target was officially designated to be x is just false. That point in time never existed.
- parineum 1y agoMy point isn't that the use of the phrase is wrong, the point is that the colloquial understanding of the phrase is a bad concept. [All] lawyers are bad CEOs is a statement that was made. Evidence to the contrary was presented. "The exception proves the rule" was used to dismiss that evidence. It's used in a similar way as "God works in mysterious ways".