[Buddha-l] karma or kamma

[Joy Vriens]

Piya wrote:

  >This is the well known debate as regards who defines the words we use: 
>the dictionary or the speaker. 

Montaigne said that words are defined for half by the one speaking and for half by the one hearing them. No rules will change that reality. Appealing to dictionaries, conventions or other expressions of authority is a different matter. They dont apply to what happens but to what ought to happen or is conventionally expected to happen.

Joy