Note on Plain Language and Confusion

side note on plain speaking in philosophy. People have to understand the language cannot yet say what we are trying to express... we don't just use language, we have to invent and improve it.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• relativistic
• skepticism
• atheism
• language
• confusion
• plain
• speaking

[funeralsong34]

Understanding is more about the brain trying to compare and contrast your knowledge base with what your trying to explain. If your explaining soccer and I have never heard of soccer before, I try to compare your description with the closest possible thing in my head. Its a sport with a round ball, I might think basketball,baseball etc and keep trying to narrow it down with other things I know. Understanding has nothing to do with confusion but with finding a common ground on something.

[pyrrho314]

confusion is on the path to that common ground, it does not have to be total confusion, and it does not have to be unpleasant. Personally I like the slight confusion involved in learning.

[GeraldP1983]

How did you get this video to have the "Watch this video in higher quality" option? :D

[pyrrho314]

I didn't do anything in particular... hmm.

[funeralsong34]

yeah in learning but I think what your saying is more in line with curiousity or a drive to find the answer which understanding is the end result. Idk I think of the as 2 different things confusion (thirst for the answer) then understanding (achieving the answer) seeing that one may be confused and may want to seek the answer but not necessarily ever understand it.

[PuppyHate]

Your videos always have the nicest backgrounds. At least most of them.

[pyrrho314]

well, that's an open question, everyone may have an answer of course, but yeah, I think it goes on forever, nodes of understanding, never fully settled, eventually to be broken down and replaced with improved ideas.

[HumanTruth0000]

Thank u for PM. I send u another one.. Yeah, it is valid to be confused and create confusion, but u also say that confusion makes knowledge/clarity. So when we gain some clarity, do we confuse it again?. Yes, confuse it again, gain more clarity... valid again, but also sometimes practicality. I mean even a "cat" is not a cat but some arbitrary thing we called it, but cat is all we got so lets not go overboard and start questioning the "cat" 100% of the time , at every second for all time.

[HumanTruth0000]

Valid points, but practicality needed sometime. Are we going to tear down every concept/word we given meaning to?(however arbitrary). Language/confusion good, but we also need practicality is my point. We cant just blindly be adding bs all the time. What does "adding" even mean? What does mean even mean? Meaning has no meaning if it does not even mean mean. What is the meaning of meaning? What is "what". It is not just exploration of confusion at all times. Sometimes we need practicality too.

[jogayot]

bah... confusionistic appologetica simpleciensis

[TheAngryCanuck]

For the most part, I disagree. Usually people can get the point without using the big words. It also can cost subs and viewership from the younger audience. I wouldn't use big words on Youtube.

[dogatron]

talk about increased confusion...