Meaning of Humpty Dumptyism | Babel Free

Definitions

The practice of insisting that a word means whatever one wishes it to.

idiomatic, uncountable

Examples

“"It seems to be saying one or both of two things. One is that any score that comes out of any procedure that purports to measure intelligence is a value of the scale, intelligence. If so, this would be Humpty Dumptyism."”

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