Practice question · Numerical answer
How many distinct senses of the word "politics" does this lesson separate?
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- Arena and process are two of them.
- Arena, process, power, and what concerns the collectivity.
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4
Why
Four. The number matters less than the habit of asking which sense is in play. Most disputes about whether something "is political" turn out to be two people using different senses and agreeing about everything else.
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