The Pluto Problem is directly related to the increasingly popular infectious disease that declares that »language should tell you what/who things or beings »are.

This was the pilot-wave that announced a kind of frame collapse where mere words… rise beyond their appropriate status as pointers, appearing to »overtly declare identity.

So that ‘planet’ was taken to mean one specific thing: approximately, an orbital body of significant size that had, over time, cleared its orbit (by absorption or perhaps deflection) of all bodies of some other significant size.

This »sense of the word (many senses) ‘planet’ demonstrates a problem that is explosively contagious: supposing that all senses of a word »should be collapsed into »a sense of a word… and that this move is »authoritative, i.e.: ‘correct’.

We should have recognized the pilot wave as the harbinger of what it portends, noticed both the threat and the »error, and adjusted accordingly. Instead, the ‘consensus’ (i.e. median, average, ‘norm’) or… those in whom the authority was vested, decided upon a specific instance of frame collapse.

But why, exactly? What made that the ‘good’ or authoritative move?

Language, and presuming that words tell us what things or beings ‘are’ or ‘do’. Now this is more complex than it appears, because »that’s how we generally use language…

And it’s a gravity (for awareness, attention, intelligence) trap.

Because the produce of language…

… are toys. They are perspectives… we should inhabit… the order »beyond…

… and refuse, with some important exceptions…

to allow language to declare identity, meaning, or qualities to us.