>According to that, if I say only:
>
>" I am cured "
>
>then "cured" could mean "very ill and about to die", since that could be "what
>I want it to mean" and it is entirely sensible in the context, which in this
>case consists entirely of two words and one punctuation mark.

Three words, no punctuation.

All words mean what you think they mean.  A dictionary only contains common
usage.

Ask everyone on this group what socialism means, and see if you get the
same answer from any two people.

Same goes for cure.  It means for me that I no longer have the
symptoms.  You seem to think it means that it will never come back under
any conditions.

>PS   I think it is time to throw out your language, semantics and philosophy
>texts and get new ones.

I spent years developing this religion, I'm not going to get rid of it now :-)

Kat.