🔴 What is ‘nature’? Dictionaries urged to include humans in definition
“Currently, all English dictionaries define nature as an entity separate from and opposed to humans and human creations – a perspective campaigners say perpetuates humanity’s troubled relationship with the natural world.”
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Dictionaries don't have authority to tell us how to use words, they summarize how we actually use words, based on observation.
It's not the dictionaries that perpetuate this usage, it's us, led by the media.
As you correctly mentioned so does the article:
Dictionaries do not determine the definitions of words, said Fiona McPherson, a lexicographer at the OED..
It is not the dictionaries that set definitions.
