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Quote by: Osborn F Enready  Its the vague subjectivity that often leads to a large expenditure of wind, with little understanding of the topic.
Perhaps, we should stick to definitions, so we can all understand what is being said?
"impression of a democracy"?
It is, or it isn't.
We ain't. |
Well, not everyone in the world thinks like a political scientist. What I'm basically saying is that democracy in the conventional context is synonymous with Western government in general. Not many people really care about the specifics. It's like a frog murderer saying "Naw, I only killed tadpoles!"
Indeed, specifically speaking, your government is not a democracy per se, but that wasn't even a subject of the debate. I guess we should assume that we're speaking in the conventional sense unless we say otherwise. The same thing happened to me when I was talking about "agnosticism" in the epistemological sense rather than the conventional sense, since there are two different meanings. I solved it by saying "agnosticism in the epistemological sense" or something like that because the natural default to the audience is the conventional sense.