RE: Why 2+2=4 is not a truth but just a cultural convention
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our belief-system already got hijacked ;D
it's some kind of fight of central word definers versus dynamic social word defining..
when I look out into the world it often seems to me as if people don't know the real meaning of words they use anymore..
it's also interesting to understand how words work.
we try to pack emotions we feel while thinking into words..
..and then hope the other side receives the same emotion and meaning..
reminds me of so many pointless "discussions"..
but should we define every word within a discussion?
that would take so much more time and effort than already trying to talk about stuff..
or should we just let a central authority define everything?
also often when people realize the sides have different ideas of what the words and definitions mean, it just becomes a blamegame - instead of honest exchange of ideas/ information.
cuz one side thinks it's further ahead.. and uses "rhetorics" to make the other side look like dumb shit, lol
@tipu curate
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not really but kind of yes :D. Things like agreeing on what colors are colored doesn't require much discussion but even there you had the blue/white dress incident. I think it s import to define the big words Freedom, Democracy, Justice, The Left, The Right and a lot of other stuff will logically built up on this like.
In math it is the same you only have very view Axioms. Most rules follow as a logical consequence out of the Axioms.
Yeah it is hard to talk about what words mean. The nature of language is more dynamic and social, like you said and while it is important to try to keep our understanding of words as universal as possible. It won't and shouldn't be something completely dictated.
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