IF... a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, is that possibly also when and where the echo of a duck's quack is resounding???????
I think, therefore I am.
I do not require a recognition or definition of myself to be provided by you or any other for me to exist.
Your eyes may see me differently than mine do, your ears certainly hear me differently.
If you want any definition of who I am, what you see, and what you are hearing to have significant correlation to whom I believe myself to be, you must receive these clarifications through communication with me. Anything less/different is most likely incomplete, incorrect and/or totally erroneous.
Dictionaries exist to provide meanings for words for all to use so that communication is based on a common set of standardly held definitions.
No such reference book is universally held to be correct for all, about all, or by all. If we are to place understood value of one another, we must communicate one by one to receive this knowledge.
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