How much is linguistic part of the paradoxes? We often struggle to understand each other, but the terms we're using do not convey the same meaning. Going back to previous examples: - Behaving like a man or a woman doesn't mean the same for two different people. It doesn't mean the same that it did two centuries ago either. - Eating healthy can have many different meaning. Is it about the quantity of the food you ingest? Its quality? Macronutrients? - Being smart doesn't mean the same thing from different perspectives. You can be street smart, book smart, emotionally smart and so on. To solve a paradox, we need to negotiate with one another. And the first step toward win-win is mutual understanding, which is highly reliant on our ability to convey meaning through the language that we use.