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Originally Posted by Spexxvet
They were executed with proper authority and formalities, are relevant and meaningful, and are appropriate to the end in view.
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You're seriously arguing that her statement that she doesn't care about legalities meets meaning "having legal efficacy or force"?
Congratulations, in trying to establish 1 you've completely abandoned your own claim to 2b.
And 2a requires
both meaning and relevance. Surely they must mean
something, but my original point was they had no relevence.
If thoughts are somehow "valid" simply because someone has them--which is the claim behind "as valid as anybody else's"--then "valid" has become an empty tautology.
Do you usually expect every usage of a word to comport with
all the glossed meanings? In that case there are some words you won't ever be able to use at all.