Information obtained through vicarious experience can be unproductive or productive. If you find yourself in some problem related to language, it is probably because some of the rules or controlling variables of the language have been violated. As a result it fails to accomplish anything. For example, 1. It cannot be done because there is not one meaning for all situations.
Words can have contradictory meanings each selected for a different situation.
Conundrums are frequently compound discriminations with the control ignored. With the provided information, it could not have been answered. You had to have the additional information to differentiate the meaning. Language has many levels of usage, from a common imprecise level to a precise unambiguous scientific level. Sunrise refers to an event but it is not the sun rising on a flat earth.