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JA: I see that there is some effort to come up with a more neutral frame of reference for the discussion, but it's clear that we still have a way to go.  I've really done my own level best to avoid adding neologisms, that is, words that I haven't seen someone else using somewhere else before.  But sometimes it's considered a neologism to introduce a term like ""truth-bearer"" into a context where other terms have been more usual.  What can ya do?  And I think you will find that the general idea of a ""truth-bearer"" has historically been used to include persons and gods (notably Hermes, for one) — indeed, some hermeneuticians consider the linguistic sense to be a pale shadow of the personal sense.  Just something to think about.   "