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This blog is dedicated to the discussion of lingustic and other pedantry. I read all comments, so don't hesitate to post a comment even if the post is years old: these are long-term interests of mine! I don't post every day, I'm afraid, so I suggest that, if you are interested, you go to http://www.changedetection.com/ and put the name of this blog in it, so that you will be e-mailed when there is a new post or comment.

Sunday, May 21, 2006

misuse of 'claim'

A lot of philosophers misuse the word 'claim' of any proposition as if to claim something was just the same as to say that it was true . In fact, 'claim' means to demand or assert a right.

If you have any other examples of misused words please feel free to post them as comments.

Daniel Hill

# posted by Daniel Hill @ 11:48 am 3 comments

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