“Law”
It could mean:
– What people with guns are saying (“decree/party line”)
– What people with guns are enforcing (“enforced”)
– What is written in a written constitution (“constitutionally legal”)
– What is written in law books (“ordinary law”)
– What judges have been saying (“case law”)
– What people hold as core beliefs above and beyond written or oral law (“human rights”)
– What accords with the notion of a law code based on proportional punishment (“just law”)
– That any law code exists and the police actually try to enforce that written law (“law and order”)
– The facts on the ground (“status quo”)
“Climate change”
It properly is composed of:
– Whether we have the ability to effectively measure a change in climate
– The direction of that change
– The magnitude of that change
– Whether we have the ability to create a component analysis identifying each factor’s contribution to climate
– Some roughly accurate idea of that component analysis
– If this component analysis indicates human factors, what is the direction of those factors
– If this component analysis indicates human factors, what is the magnitude of those factors
– If this component analysis indicates human factors, what will be the effects of certain human actions taken, e.g. reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, to change climate
“Justice”
It could mean:
– Eye for a eye
– Administrative execution of some sort of law, whether or not that provides any other outcome associated with justice
– Actual compensation
– A situation where people get what they deserve
“Government”
Speaking at its most general level, it is a group of people using force/violence to achieve their objectives. People sometimes mean:
– The “legitimate” government (but if you ask them for the criteria, usually it is an incoherent mess)
– The group of people who claim to rule the country, but in reality they are a front for organized crime/drug cartels etc.
– A bureaucratic process, possibly even without significant amounts of power/use of violence or force
– A political process to change a situation, whether or not it actually functions as they claim