For example, why do we say “Your pupils are dilated”. They aren’t. It’s the iris aperture that is dilated.

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    22 hours ago

    Oh boy. Don’t look too deep into philosophy of language, or you might become convinced that “the iris” is just as nonexistent — or that all nouns are really about a symbolic existence as a relationship, for which measurable physical matter is inconsequential.