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“it is what we know already that often prevents us from learning” - Claude Bernard The ambiguity of words complicates writing. Especially technical writing, with ambitious objectives: to communicate ‘definite, specific ideas’, well-enough to result in the formation of ‘sufficiently equivalent ideas’ in the mind of a reader. Technical communications must also account for existing ideas – ideas, already present in the mind – prior knowledge which may {obscure; pollute; or corrupt} the {construction; composition; or contextual framing}, of new ideas...

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The ambiguity of words complicates writing. Especially technical writing, with ambitious objectives: 1) to communicate definite, specific, ideas; 2) well-enough, to result in the formation of sufficiently equivalent ideas in the mind of a reader. Communication must also account for existing ideas – ideas, already present in the mind of a reader; prior knowledge, which might obscure, pollute, or corrupt the composition or contextual framing, of new ideas “it is what we know already that often prevents us from learning” - Claude Bernard