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Language is important in social science theories. We employ a number of terms taken from ordinary speech, thus importing ambiguity and opaqueness. The remedy is to introduce explications, i.e., making stipulations about meaning. The risk involved is the analytic statement, i.e., treating sentences as true by definition or meaning.