On Nov 1, 4:28 am, Nick Keighley <
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all of
you creeps praise [Schildt} for his clarity, which shows you don't know the
meaning of that word, for it means "conducive to understanding and
acquiring JUSTIFIED TRUE BELIEF".
1. Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light;
luminous; unclouded.
[Webster]
You've deliberately chosen the wrong definition:
I did not. There were many definitions listed and I just quoted the
first. They all read pretty similarly to me. And none of them
mentioned Justified True Belief.
The Oxford English Dictionary does, in its definition of knowledge.
And, it defines "understanding" as "having knowledge", and "clarity"
as "leading to understanding". You've deliberately chosen the wrong
definition.
clarity: clearness [Chambers]
clearness: in a clear manner: distinctly [Chambers]
Just because you humpty-dumpty the english langauge doesn't me we have
to go along with it.
No, I used the OED.
No, you made it up.
These are ALL the definitions of "clarity" in the OED:
(
http://dictionary.oed.com)
CLARITY
1. Brightness, lustre, brilliancy, splendour. Obs. (An exceedingly
common sense in 17th c.)
b. with pl. Obs.
c. fig. ‘Light’. Obs.
2. Glory, divine lustre. Obs.
3. Illustrious quality; lustre of renown. Obs.
4. Clearness: in various current uses; e.g. of colour, sky,
atmosphere, sight, intellect, judgement, conscience, style.
And these are all the definitions of
CLEARNESS
The quality of being clear; in various senses of the adj.
1. Brightness, luminousness; splendour, brilliancy; fairness, beauty;
fineness of weather. Obs.
2. Freedom from opacity, obscurity, or discolourment; distinctness or
purity of light or colour; transparency, pellucidness.
3. Distinctness of vision, sound, expression, comprehension, etc.
4. Purity; innocence; openness. Obs.
5. Freedom from anything obstructive.
And fnially, of "clear", which had many senses. But no mention of your
"definition":
CLEAR:
A. adj. I. Of light, colour, things illuminated.
1. a. orig. Expressing the vividness or intensity of light: Brightly
shining, bright, brilliant.
b. Now expressing the purity or uncloudedness of light; clear fire, a
fire in full combustion without flame or smoke. Also used with adjs.,
as clear white, brown, etc.
2. a. Of the day, daylight, etc.: Fully light, bright; opposed to dusk
or twilight. arch.
b. Of the weather: orig. Full of sunshine, bright, ‘fine’; serene,
‘fair’. Obs. (Cf. to clear up.)
c. Now: Free from cloud, mists, and haze; a ‘clear day’, ‘clear
weather’ is that in which the air is transparent so that distant
objects are distinctly seen; a ‘clear sky’, a sky void of cloud.
d. fig. Serene, cheerful; of unclouded countenance or spirit. Obs. or
arch.
3. a. Allowing light to pass through, transparent.
b. Of coloured liquids, etc.; Translucent, pellucid, free from
sediment, not turbid or opaque.
4. a. Bright or shining, as polished illuminated surfaces; lustrous.
(Now expressing esp. purity and evenness of lustre.)
b. gen. Bright, splendid, brilliant. Obs.
c. A common epithet of women: Beautiful, beauteous, fair. Obs.
d. Of the complexion, skin, etc.: Bright, fresh, and of pure colour;
blooming; in modern use, esp. implying purity or transparency of the
surface skin, and absence of freckles, discolouring spots, or
‘muddiness’ of complexion.
5. fig. Illustrious. [So L. clrus.] Obs.
II. Of vision, perception, discernment.
6. Of lines, marks, divisions: Clearly seen, distinct, well-marked,
sharp.
7. a. Of words, statements, explanations, meaning: Easy to understand,
fully intelligible, free from obscurity of sense, perspicuous.
b. Also transferred to the speaker or writer.
c. Not in cipher or code. Often absol., in clear.
8. Of a vision, conception, notion, view, memory, etc.: Distinct,
unclouded, free from confusion.
9. a. Manifest to the mind or judgement, evident, plain.
b. Of a case at law: Of which the solution is evident.
10. Of the eyes, and faculty of sight: Seeing distinctly, having keen
perception.
11. Of the faculty of discernment: That sees, discerns, or judges
without confusion of ideas.
12. Of persons: Having a vivid or distinct impression or opinion;
subjectively free from doubt; certain, convinced, confident, positive,
determined. Const. in (an opinion, belief), of (a fact), as to, on,
about (a fact, course of action), for (a course of action); that. I am
clear that = it is clear to me that. [So in 12th c. Fr.]
III. Of sound.
13. a. Of sounds, voice: Ringing, pure and well-defined, unmixed with
dulling or interfering noises; distinctly audible.
b. Phonetics. Designating one of two varieties of lateral consonants
(the other being called ‘dark’) (see quots.).
IV. Of moral purity, innocence.
14. fig. from 3: Pure, guileless, unsophisticated.
15. a. Unspotted, unsullied; free from fault, offence, or guilt;
innocent. Cf. CLEAN a.
b. Const. of, from.
V. Of free, unencumbered condition.
16. a. Of income, gain, etc.: Free from any encumbrance, liability,
deduction, or abatement; unencumbered; net.
b. Sheer, mere, bare, unaided. Obs.
17. Free from all limitation, qualification, question, or shortcoming;
absolute, complete; entire, pure, sheer. Cf. CLEAN a.
18. Free from encumbering contact; disengaged, unentangled, out of
reach, quite free; quit, rid.
a. with from.
b. with of. Quit, rid, free.
c. In such phrases as to get or keep (oneself) clear, to steer clear,
go clear, stand clear, the adjective passes at length into an adverb.
d. With n. of action.
19. Of measurement of space or time: combining the notions of senses
17, 18. a. Of distance. Cf. C. 5.
b. clear side (of a ship): see quot.
c. clear day or days: a day or days, with no part occupied or
deducted.
20. a. Free from obstructions or obstacles; unoccupied by buildings,
trees, furniture, etc.; open.
b. Free from roughnesses, protuberances, knots, branches; = CLEAN a.
12.
c. clear ship: a ship whose deck is cleared for action.
21. Free or emptied of contents, load, or cargo; empty; esp. of a
ship, when discharged.
22. Free from any encumbrance or trouble; out of debt; out of the hold
of the law.
23. Free from pecuniary complications.
24. slang. Very drunk. Obs.
25. a. U.S. slang. Free from admixture, unadulterated, pure, ‘real.’
clear grit: ‘real stuff’: see quots.
b. In technical or trade use.
B. adv. [Clear is not originally an adverb, and its adverbial use
arose partly out of the predicative use of the adjective, as in ‘the
sun shines clear’; partly out of the analogy of native English adverbs
which by loss of final -e had become formally identical with their
adjectives, esp. of CLEAN adv., which it has largely supplanted.]
1. Brightly, with effulgence; with undimmed or unclouded lustre. [Cf.
bright similarly used.]
2. In a clear or perspicuous manner; distinctly. Obs. (now CLEARLY.)
3. Manifestly, evidently. Obs. (now CLEARLY.)
4. a. With clear voice; distinctly; CLEARLY.
b. clear-away: entirely, completely.
5. a. Completely, quite, entirely, thoroughly; = CLEAN adv. 5. Obs.
exc. dial. and U.S.
b. With away, off, out, through, over, and the like; esp. where there
is some notion of getting clear of obstructions, or of escaping; =
CLEAN.
6. See other quasi-adverbial uses in A. 18c.
C. n. I. Elliptical uses of the adjective.
1. A fair lady, a ‘fair’. Obs.
2. Brightness, clearness. Obs.
3. The clear part of a mirror. Obs.
4. Painting. (pl.) Lights as opposed to shades.
5. a. Clear space, part of anything clear of the frame or setting;
phr. in the clear, in interior measurement. See A. 19.
b. Colloq. phr. in the clear: (a) out of reach; (b) unencumbered; free
from trouble, danger, suspicion, etc.; (c) having a clear profit.
orig. U.S.
II. Verbal n. from CLEAR v.
6. a. A clearing of the atmosphere, sky, or weather.
b. With adverbs: clear-out, an act of clearing out (see CLEAR v. 26);
clear-up, an act of clearing up, spec. the settlement of accounts (see
CLEAR v. 27g); also attrib.
D. Combinations.
1. With the adj.: chiefly parasynthetic; as clear-aired (having clear
air), clear-crested, -faced, -featured, -hearted, -limbed, -minded,
-pointed, -spirited, -stemmed, -throated, -toned, -voiced, -walled,
-witted, etc.
2. With the adv., as clear-dangling, -drawn, -judging, -seeing,
-shining, -smiling, -spoken, -standing, -swayed, -writ, etc. (See also
A. 1b.)
3. Special comb.: clear-air gust or turbulence, disturbance of the
atmosphere at high altitudes; clear-cake, a kind of confection, partly
transparent; clear-cut a., sharply-chiselled, sharply defined;
clear-cutness, the quality of being clear-cut; clear-cutting,
-felling, the cutting down and removal of every tree in a given area;
hence clear-fell, clear-felled adjs.; clear-light v., to illumine
clearly; clear-matin, some kind of bread; clear-skin Austral., an
unbranded beast (cf. clean-skin); also attrib.; clear-walk (see
quot.); clear-way, clearway, (a) (see quot. a 1884); (b) a path or
passage-way; (c) a road on which vehicles are not allowed to park or
wait; clear-wing, attrib., popular name of the Hawk-moths with
transparent wings (Ægeridæ); so clear-winged. Also CLEAR-EYED,
CLEAR-HEADED, CLEAR-STARCH, etc.
ADDITIONS SERIES 1993
clear, a., adv., and n.
Add: [C.] [I.] Sense 6 in Dict. becomes 7.
6. In Scientology, a person who has completed a course of dianetic
therapy and is considered free of neuroses and other physical or
mental ills. Cf. *PRECLEAR n.
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Conclusion: either you're lying, or delusional.
In neither case will you admit your error, of course.
