A World of Definitional Gerrymandering We need to define terms. Our culture is always ready to debate and toss accusations, but we fail to stop and see if we even mean the same things by the words we hurl. No wonder nothing ever gets settled.

We need to define terms -- otherwise we accidentally slip into "definitional gerrymandering." I give a few examples, but I wrote this because the problem is endemic: https://ofb.biz/sa1323

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A World of Definitional Gerrymandering We need to define terms. Our culture is always ready to debate and toss accusations, but we fail to stop and see if we even mean the same things by the words we hurl. No wonder nothing ever gets settled.

"We need to define terms. Our culture is always ready to debate and toss accusations, but we fail to stop and see if we even mean the same things by the words we hurl. No wonder we never settled anything." #Philosophy #NewCalvinism #JohnPiper #TimKeller https://ofb.biz/sa1323