You are right that both are interconnected. "Positional" means skilled at evaluating a position. "Tactical" means skilled at evaluating a tactic. Tactics are transitions between positions and positions are starting and ending points of tactics.
I'd only add that tactics needn't make use of blunders from the opponent or a better position. They require neither gaining advantage nor responding to opponent's mistakes. Those would be exploitations, not tactics. It's a matter of phrazing but it's worth differentiating those anyway.
A blunder would be: a move which leads to either (if one sports himself a tactician) a favorable combination for the opponent, or (if one sports himself a positional player) a favorable position for the opponent. Favorable meaning perceptibly better than the one (combination / position) resulting from the best for the opponent of the rest of his possible moves.
TL;DR: one can sport himself as whichever of those qualifications he'd feel like or consider more meritable.
Doesn't good position lead to good tactics? In that case, can a player ever truly be said to be either a tactical or positional player? The only other way I can see to get tactics is via a blunder, and in that case, what constitutes a blunder? And if a tactic isn't instantly playable, isn't positional maneuvering necessary?