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Originally Posted by DanaC
If you insist on using the word 'Jam' to describe something which is about to be spread on toast, it would be reasonable for me to form certain assumptions as to what you are about to eat.
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You can form whatever assumption you want about a person's use of the word "worship" but you can't insist that your assumptions apply to that person's description of a non-concrete, internal activity taking place within their own mind. Jam can be observed directly, worship can not. It is defined within the individual.
Incidentally, the collective assumptions about what "worship" means, from a
dictionary definition, do not specify a communicative act.