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by judahmeek 248 days ago
Hold on. You're the one saying that a definition can be too broad & acting like that actually means something important.

So I'm asking how you define a definition as "too broad".

Because my perspective is that definitions that are in fact too broad are unimportant because no one uses them.

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Useful definitions! Yes, easy.

Universal definitions? Extremely hard.

Do you know of a human culture in which a chair is defined as something else that an elevated seat with a back?