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Oh, and the equivocation argument is going nowhere. If someone were to make the argument that a country is a sovereign state, that Scotland is a country, and that Scotland is therefore a sovereign state, then that would be equivocation. However, the fact that one term is used for both the whole of the UK and parts of it is not equivocation. You might as well say the same about the word territory, or ""biological entity"" (which includes both human beings and the cells that make them).   "