You are the one who brought up definitions of the two words. I simply showed you were you were wrong.
And I showed you that I was correct, according to the University of California.
But in either case, you being wrong or I being wrong about the definition of a word, is not the topic of this thread and if you request that I was the first to offtopic (even when it was not offtopic), then I must apologize for that.
Also, I can even accept that I was wrong respect to hypothesys and theory definitions, if that makes you feel better, but even in the case that I was wrong, it doesn't give an explanation about why the FE fails in the cases I described in the first message.
So, please, defend the FE hypothesys or theories that you support, instead of trying to prove that I may be wrong while defining the meaning of a word.
Other than that, I won't answer any other messages from you or from anyone, in this thread, that doesn't solve any of the questions in the OP message.
Also, perhaps you should try to contact Merriam-Webster to inform them that they are wrong?
Why I "should" care about them being wrong? It is their (and your) problem, not mine.