What do you mean by that? Defining your terms as an intellectual virtue

For years now, I have led a discussion on Charles Taylor’s definitions of what it means to be secular in my worldview/philosophy courses at Boyce College. One reason for this is that the term secular can take on different senses and mean different things by different people in different contexts. I vividly remember years ago writing something about our secular culture in a paper. My professor circled the word and wrote boldly in the margin “what do you mean by this?” That note caused me to slow ...