The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound

• Quine type thoughts;
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• Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.
• Ways of Paradox and Other Essays (1976)
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• Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it

we cannot stem the name calling of the left but we can drag our feet

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

The claim that a given person has such a disposition (bigotry et al)  is thus a claim about the state of a physical object.