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I didn't really get a lot out of this, which is something I've come to expect from articles that start with the dictionary entry for the thing they're discussing. It immediately puts me on guard for sophistry and/or bloviation - just my personal experience, but it's pretty reliable.

That said, it's always good to have people writing about this stuff. I'll be trying my hand at some point.

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Thanks for the feedback. With a big topics like these it's always hard to draw a line about how much context you provide.

I didn't know using dictionary definitions was a good predictor for the quality of the content but I'll keep that in mind. For me it's just hard to discard dictionary definitions as a tool to convey context when dictionary contain years and years of mental work to compress complex ideas and meanings into sentences that are easy to understand.

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