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Hi Robin Faichney -
>The "best" anything, unless
>what's "better" is entirely explicit and agreed, is about valuation,
>a matter of opinion. If you don't agree, let's hear your case.
Look, I totally agree that _anything_ that _anyone_ has _ever_ said at
_any_ time is _fiction_- and thus opinion is a great deal of it, and that
the best thing that anyone could ever say would also be open to opinion,
but the _best way to use a word_ ain't, and never was, a matter of
_opinion_. It has always and shall ever more remain, a matter of
consensus.
1. A belief or conclusion held with confidence but not substantiated by
positive knowledge or proof.
Your use of the language proportedly common to us all is exasperatingly
idiosyncratic, and it appears you've enlarged your scope to the realms of
philosophy as well, where nothing is at its best.
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