> >Natural language is an
> >extremely complex problem, and it is amazing how well people are able to
> >comprehend and disambiguate language. But in establishing a scientific
> >language it is important to try and limit ambiguities as much is possible.
>
> Agreed, that is why I've gone through great pains to explicitly define
> the words that I use in unorthodox senses, like "church", "faith",
> "rational", etc. Sadly it doesn't seem to help for longer than a day
> or two.
Well, we could look for a new terminology to use. (One completely
unrelated to chanting Tibetan monks, of course!!! ;-)
Eva has offered us a starting point with memes. David, could you do the
same with by giving us a synonim for "faith" and "rational" and "reality"
that is more technically percise to your purposes? (Make a word up if you
have to!) It may help.
-Prof. Tim