More often than not, language is the problem.
An enormous amount of confusion comes from misunderstanding the nature of language – the relationship between language and objective reality. Linguistic errors plague every area of thought, and they affect everybody from the layman to the intellectual. But they become most important in philosophy, where small errors affect our entire worldview.
One of the most common errors is thinking there are “objective definitions” for words. People waste an enormous amount of time endlessly debating about the “correct definition” for some word. They are confused. Language doesn’t work that way. The misunderstanding can be resolved rather simply:
There are no objective definitions for words.