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Hi Ted,
I like that one. It goes straight to the root of the matter.
I think if meanings are considered identical only if the whole field that is covered by a word (extension) is fixed, then there are very few monosemous words. A therapist might consider a patient logorrheic while the patient himself feels perfectly normal.
A truly polysemous word should be one which has several extension fields that are unconnected among themselves.
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