• Dabundis@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The purpose of language is communication. If I were to say “I had soup for breakfast” when I really had cereal, it would probably communicate the wrong idea. Cereal is not soup, and it is not necessary to produce a robust, cereal-excluding definition of soup to defend this point.