Re: words, 1 of 2

	Duration: 436 seconds Upload Time: 07-03-26 21:40:53 User: azrienoch :::: Favorites
Description: Skip this video and go to Re: Re: words I'm going to post the script to the video here so you can read it without the extra stuff. Notice the seemingly automatic change in tone. I'd like to do a video on the many uses of words and how we tend to mistake them for other uses. Our words can lead us to thinking about things in strange and new ways. And while this is often a good thing, it is a mistake to take any of them seriously -- as truth. It is by mistaking the misuses of words that we come by ambiguous but convincing interpretations of the world. None of them are right, but none of them can be wrong, either. Consider Wittgenstein's example: this is a picture of Jude. If we use this to identify her at the airport, it probably wouldn't "work." And if it does, it's not by virtue of the use of this picture, but rather, just dumb luck. Once we've learned how to use the picture of Jude, we wouldn't think of its use being any other way. It's not so obvious with words. Consider the law of non-contradiction: a proposition cannot be true and false and false at the same time. Prior to hearing of this rule and learning how to use it, we often come by phrases like, "I'm angry, but I'm not angry," or, "I was both happy and sad at once." After hearing and learning the rule, this seems like it should be nonsense -- yet it isn't, is it? When we learn how to use the law of non-contradiction, we learn a new use for many certain phrases; that is, a NEW use -- not an undiscovered, inherent one. And now, as we think of the rule, and we think of it applying to itself, we think of our inability to reject it, because in rejecting it, we contradict it; meaning that we use it. Our awareness of the rule has us wanting to say, "This cannot be wrong under any circumstances." But we have forgotten that we used to think of the rejection of a contradiction in a different way, as rejecting the whole thing. "I'm not angry, but I'm also not not angry. But that doesn't mean I'm angry -- I'm simply nothing." (Cont. in 2 of 2)
Comments
Judelicious1971 ::: Favorites It looks lovely where you are today. This is excellent, its easier to understand all written out like this. THANK YOU AZ you smashing chap. x 07-03-26 23:25:20 _____________________________________________________
jarhood2007 ::: Favorites intresting 07-03-27 01:53:50 _____________________________________________________
braveorslave ::: Favorites Very interesting. So basically i can never ever convey anything i want to because of other peoples interpretations on each singular word in my sentence will give my sentence a whole new meaning. Its depressing. 07-03-27 06:08:36 _____________________________________________________
azrienoch ::: Favorites No no no. Disregard this video. I'm uploading a new response. This one was crap. 07-03-27 06:25:31 _____________________________________________________
undefinedego ::: Favorites dont know how relevant this is to your video but i taught my dog to understand pointing. i was a little surprised when it didn't understand the meaning of it straight away, it was looking for the food that i had just thrown and i pointed to the corner and it didnt understand at all. it took a while for it to associate the direction of my finger with food. 07-05-13 16:16:50 _____________________________________________________