Sabina: The words used in expressing facts affect neither the facts nor the conclusions those facts will support  Moreover, if the words are clearly defined and consistently used, the actual words chosen make no difference to an argument' s soundness  Thus, how an argument is expressed can have no bearing on whether it is a good argument  Emile: Badly chosen words can make even the soundest argument a poor one  After all, many words have social and political connotations that influence people' s response to claims expressed in those words, regardless of how carefully and explicitly those words are defined
Since whether people will acknowledge a fact is affected by how the fact is expressed, the conclusions they actually draw are also affected
a word can be defined without taking into account its social and political connotations