Saying What You Mean: A manual for contested words

Two people argue for two hours and get nowhere. Neither has lied and neither hasmisquoted. They were reading one sentence two different ways, and nothing in theargument was built to notice.This is a working manual for the moment a word stops being free and starts being arule -- in a policy, a statute, a platform's terms of service, an accusation. It setsout seven steps for taking a contested sentence apart and nine for the argument it wasa premise in; six norms for doing either in good faith, each printed with what it willcost the person who keeps it; five verdicts an argument can honestly end at; and fourworked audits of live material, one of which produces nothing and is printed anyway.Seven exercises are answered in full.It does not ask anyone to speak more precisely. Chapter 7 is the argument againstthat, and it names who pays.