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    What is a "paragraph" in Emacs?  I can't find a @dfn{paragraph} anywhere
    in the Emacs/Elisp manuals.

Do we need one?  Certainly in the Emacs Lisp manual we don't.
It is a high-level concept used in just a few user-level commands.

Defining paragraphs better might be useful in the Emacs Manual.
Would this really make a difference for users, though?  I am not sure.
Right now the manual effectively takes for granted that users
know what a paragraph is.  Is this a problem?