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Originally Posted by pfreivald
I maintain that it is unreasonable to expect first to define common English words used in the manual, unless there is true confusion as to what a phrase means.
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FIRST often uses common words, but attaches special meaning to them. I think the Q&A questions about definitions were perfectly reasonable attempts to discover whether this was the case here.
Also, dictionary definitions of these terms often imply an analogy to the human hand. Even if you accept an ordinary definition, you still need to know whether the anthropomorphic aspect of the definition is relevant, or merely the end result.