Journal

Here is the journal I was telling you about. I handed this in to Theory of Knowledge class.



The definition of words. By defining words different ways, they have
very different connotations. When you said that we must hand in our
assignment before we leave the school for Christmas break, there are
many ways that can be understood. If we define “school” as the entire
building, what happens if we sleep at the school and never leave it
over the break? Do we still have to hand in our assignment? Or if we
look at your sentence, leaving on “Christmas break”, what if we are
Jewish or another religion that does not celebrate Christmas? Do we
still have to hand this in if we are technically not leaving on
“Christmas break”? What if we define “school” as a part of the
property? If I go out in the front yard and scoop up some dirt, then
keep it with me for the whole break, am I technically leaving the
school? We could even define the word “break” differently to give this
sentence a different connotation. If we define “break” as a rest
period, then we could say that we are doing work the entire time we are
out of school. Then we are not actually having a “break”. So do we
still have to hand in our assignments? If we were to get really
technical, we could even define the word “leave” to change the
sentence. If we define “leave” as an absence of the article, then we
could think about the school for the entire break and validly not hand
in our assignment. By defining the words in your sentence differently,
we can easily change the meaning to something else that we prefer it
mean. People have to watch what they say. If they something that can
easily be changed to something else, other people will use any loophole
to get out of doing things that inconvenience them. However, as I have
demonstrated, almost any sentence can be intentionally misunderstood to
mean something completely different. Without giving the definition of
every word you say, it is impossible to avoid these mistakes. English
is a really difficult language because of all the loopholes in every
sentence we say.

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