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by readthenotes1 152 days ago
"mostly semantics"

Semantics: 1 (linguistics) the study of meanings

I am not sure what could be more important.

But perhaps you "word choice"?

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What things are more important than the study of meanings in a linguistic context?

Well semantics only covers an infinitesimal fraction of all meaning. Consider if I inject arsenic into a snakes venom sac is it now a venom? Nothing about your answer changes anything about what’s going on, yet you could still debate the question.

So when you say “what could be more important” I can only say that just about everything is more important.