Beware the false notion that just because two people use the same word, they mean the same thing.
Kenny S. R. Costa
Background
This problem has come up a lot for me, especially in university where very complicated ideas are often communicated in what at first seems very simple and easy language.
As an illustration of what I mean, I’ve often been thrown off in Women’s Studies classes, where when they discuss the maleness of society, what my conception of male was, is completely different than what they presuppose it to be. Hence what at first seems illogical to my understanding is only so because I have not yet learned how they use the word and understand its meaning.
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