Hmm… just because disambiguation is what I do for a living, I’d say: (a) most

Hmm… just because disambiguation is what I do for a living, I’d say:
(a) most of us lack the ability to construct definitions from first principles, even if all definitions can be (with work) reduced to constructions from first principles, and simplified as a description of a sequence of logical or physical actions.
(b) defining a term by disambiguation is extremely burdensome.
(c) there is a wide divergence between communicating with a large number of people using common vocabulary (wide net) and speaking precisely so that your argument is closed to inflation, conflation, or misdirection so the economics of communication prohibit that clarity (narrow net).
(d) and the audience is generally lost by trying to. 😉
(e) In general, our experience teaching in our ‘one room schoolhouse’ is that it takes a person with high systematizing and high intelligence about two to three years of work to learn to speak unambiguously, by learning to think unambiguously.

That’s a long way of saying it’s possible but it’s not practical, so as usual, Bob is correct. 😉

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