The Importance of Clarity in Conversations

"When We misunderstand each other, what we're able to do is have this back and forth conversation," he says. "And we get closer and closer and closer to what it is that we mean." In the philosophy of race, professional philosophers try to narrow down what a race is or what it means for there to be races,. And they might appear, really, as if they are making more precise the term race... But it's not obvious if that's what they're doing, or if rather they're coming to an agreement about how to use certain words'