It is interesting to try and say what you see and ONLY what you directly see, ratyher than adding all your assumptions. If I look at my monitor, for example, I am inclined to say I see "a monitor from Apple" whereas the core fact is that I see a monitor with a logo on it shaped like an Apple. The rest is our endless additives at play, and you are absolutely right that mostly what we say is a mix of "ground truth", directly observed, extrapolations, surmises, assumptions based on past experiences and so on.

Part of this is just the smokey obfuscation of semantics. A lot of words have been twisted away from their definitions in order to slant communication one way or another -- "liberal" is a quick example.

You can get to feeling a lot better if you just shift gears and focus on the solid direct and actually present for a while instead.

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