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Originally Posted by village person
Well, you say it's not subjective but you only state your view of what is visionary. I don't know... seems like that shows that it's subjective.
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Unfortunately for this argument, words have meanings and definitions.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/visionary
See number 4, the only one that applies to this use of the word visionary:
"having or marked by foresight and imagination"
Too bad that you can't just decide a word means whatever you want it too or else what you said might just be a valid argument. Don't even try to argue that language is subjective either because the very fact that you understand what I am saying right now means its not. If words have varying meaning then there is no way we could understand each other, everyone would be speaking their own unique language.
My "view" only applied to the idea that the two words are opposite, not the definitions of the words. Since, outside of extremely concrete concepts like mathematical theory, its nearly impossible to define the word "opposite" (i.e. what is the opposite of creation? Is it destruction? Is it nothingness? Is it a void?) and since there can only be one opposite to any one concept, it is a point open to subjective debate. Unlike the meaning of words which is not open to debate since language would be useless without shared meanings.