However, pharmaceutical companies are not, nor should they be, utilities, as they'll stop research. My own take on innovation and invention is that it is driven by capitalism and individualism. Equivocation implies deceit. It is done to avoid committing to ideas. I guess there's no accounting for some beliefs.
Language is based on a type of logic system.
If an anthropologist is talking to a psychologist, they will need to constantly define the exact terms they are using because the definitions are so explicit within each field. The value of a list-serve like this is that it brings together disciplines and experiences. If everyone here just stated what they believed and left it there, it would not be dynamic, but dull. I learn and find new ways to look at things. I think it is entirely vague to state things as truth, unless it is an agreed upon tenet.