This is a damned interesting and amusing book.It's a dictionary in the same vein as Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary. It ruminates on the meaning of words and phrases rather than sets the meaning in stone. The author makes it very clear that this is his opinion and not The Truth.Here's an example:...
Indefinite versus definite. A suggestion that there is room for doubt, questioning, consideration. That an inclusive approach may be more interesting than the exclusive. That dogma or ideology are about control not truth. In formal logic, however, A is identified as a universal affirmative. A ass...