2007-09-23 17:20:52 · 4 answers · asked by romeo 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The person of integrity should say what he means and mean what he says.
Essentially, a person should not use words to confuse gullible people and take advantage or their inability to find contradictions in what con-artists say. Words have more than one meaning. Their meaning is derived by context.
All words are symbols for concepts, both for concrete and abstract objects, actions or events. All VALID concepts must be able to be reduced to reality.
Equivocation is the fallacy of using words that can be interpreted in contradictory ways or for abstract concepts that cannot be tied to reality. For example: God is Love. Neither the concept "God" nor the concept "Love" can be defined with real examples in this sentence. The concepts are floating abstractions that one must imagine in anyway he likes, arbitrarily. My idea of God and my idea of Love is personal and subjective, therefore not definable. One has to take it at face value without further questioning, and without possible application to reality.
2007-09-23 17:35:55 · answer #1 · answered by DrEvol 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
words can talk to you differently . They don't say the same thing to everyone, only to the ears that are open can hear..
Knowledge and Wisdom
2007-09-24 00:38:39 · answer #2 · answered by --}--@STORMY@--}-- 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excellent answers to this point.
The Bible teaches us to be a ''workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
2007-09-24 00:46:04 · answer #3 · answered by sympleesymple 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how you understand but you should stand to be corrected if you are wrong.
jtm
2007-09-24 00:24:59 · answer #4 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋