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32. All you're proving...

...is that no matter what is argued, you'll argue for words being used in the argument to be just as slippery as you need them to be so that you're right (but not so slippery that the person you disagree with can be right at the same time).

I can remain perfectly aware that "England" is a less-than-totally-precise mental construct, that its people aren't all in agreement on the issues, that they wouldn't even all agree who is English and which patches of ground belong to England and who speaks for England, yet I can still also understand that, by and large, when I say "England established colonies in North America" that I'm communicating a clear, understandable concept that provides useful information, and that even people who despise English imperialism will still know what I'm talking about.

There's nothing "magical" about that at all. People by and large can understand what I mean when I say "science has standards of evidence" without, unlike you, thinking that this means I've declared myself the Emperor of Science, or that I think that science is a personified being. Only you seem to suffer from such confusion, and the only thing I can't decide is if you pretend to suffer from that confusion for the sake of evasive argumentation, or if you really are that confused.