re: #582 Obdicut

Nope. They have no actual meaning. I don’t know why you think they do.

Because they do have meaning (again, “actual” in this context is a filler word, just like “inherent” when talking about meaning. You shouldn’t use those) and have been used in a meaningful way demonstrably throughout history since the French Revolution up until present times. They are also not interchangeable (which would be a condition for meaninglessness). I don’t know why you think they don’t, but I think since you made the original claim, the onus is on you.

None of those definitions are coherent. They all contain contradictions.

That’s politics for you: always riddled with contradictions. What contradictions specifically are problematic for you?

Can you define what ‘left’ or ‘right’ are?

I think I get your problem. You think of terms in a nominalistic way. That doesn’t work with political terms, though.