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Originally Posted by Bęthberry
The argument can be made that words mean what the people who use them intend them to mean, Thin, 'cause that's how words change meanings.
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"The meaning of a word is in the use of it", said a man named Ludwig Wittgenstein. And at least as it comes to this prohibiting any eternal or transcendent "meanings" that might lurk behind the everyday words we use, I think he was right. But there is the head-banger involved in here too. If the words only mean what we intend them to mean, so how can we intend them to mean something in the first place?