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We’re called to a “linguistic responsibility”,[1] for words enmesh with things. Examples: when a tree is called lumber, timber, wood product. But, even earlier: when a tree is a tree (§1.12): each and every tree. Any tree will do.
[1] Karen L.F. Houle, “A Tree By Any Other Name: Language Use and Linguistic Responsibility,” in The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature, ed. Monica Gagliano, John C. Ryan, and Patrícia Vieira (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), p. 155–72.