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Persuasive Definitions

This video presents the same text shown beside it, spoken and on screen. It adds nothing the text does not say.

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A persuasive definition smuggles evaluation into meaning, trying to win a dispute by dictionary.

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"'Taxation' means the confiscation of earnings by force." The argument is over before it starts.

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Test: would the live dispute be settled by this definition alone? Then it's doing argument's job without argument's work.