Sure if you are sure you know what you mean then you’re golden. Why even speak though if you don’t need to define your terms to others?

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maybe I should try to define every word in the English language from first principles, fail, find the language wanting and never speak again?

or else bare no responsibility for your attempts to communicate in the medium of language?--meaning is always a negotiation of the middle ground between intention and reception so my attempt to hold you accountable for the fraying of your ideas is balanced by your hesitation to waste time in the labyrinth of semantics ... and so here we are two strangers in a strange landscape