language is when you use a word that has exactly the same meaning when comparing two things. If I say, “Albert Einstein was smart,” and I say, “Jonathan Edwards was smart,” I’m meaning the same thing by the word smart. They were both two really intelligent humans. When it comes to human intelligence, one may be smarter than the other (I’d take Edwards over Einstein in an intellectual cage match), but the word I’m using to draw the comparison (i.e., smart) doesn’t change its meaning qualitatively. So,