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They need not be meaningless. It is simply that the meaning may be apparent to only a small number of people.

If I said "twice as large as my garden", most people who knew me would know what area I meant - but nobody else would. So it does have meaning, but only to a selected group.

If I don't have a ruler, I might choose to measure the length of a table in terms of my hand spans. It is a measure that has no meaning to people other than me, but for me, it works just as well as a measure of "4 feet" would do.

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They need not be meaningless. It is simply that the meaning may be apparent to only a small number of people.

If I said "twice as large as my garden", most people who knew me would know what area I meant - but nobody else would. So it does have meaning, but only to a selected group.

If I don't have a ruler, I might choose to measure the length of a table in terms of my hand spans. It is a measure that has no meaning to people other than me, but for me, it works just as well as a measure of "4 feet" would do.

They need not be meaningless. It is simply that the meaning may be apparent to only a small number of people.

If I said "twice as large as my garden", most people who knew me would know what area I meant - but nobody else would. So it does have meaning, but only to a selected group.

If I don't have a ruler, I might choose to measure the length of a table in terms of my hand spans. It is a measure that has no meaning to people other than me, but for me, it works just as well as a measure of "4 feet" would do.

They need not be meaningless. It is simply that the meaning may be apparent to only a small number of people.

If I said "twice as large as my garden", most people who knew me would know what area I meant - but nobody else would. So it does have meaning, but only to a selected group.

If I don't have a ruler, I might choose to measure the length of a table in terms of my hand spans. It is a measure that has no meaning to people other than me, but for me, it works just as well as a measure of "4 feet" would do.

They need not be meaningless. It is simply that the meaning may be apparent to only a small number of people.

If I said "twice as large as my garden", most people who knew me would know what area I meant - but nobody else would. So it does have meaning, but only to a selected group.

If I don't have a ruler, I might choose to measure the length of a table in terms of my hand spans. It is a measure that has no meaning to people other than me, but for me, it works just as well as a measure of "4 feet" would do.

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