Difficult to explain what is acquired through experience

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• Can’t a term coined based on an experience that can’t be shared be explained when asked to define or explain its meaning?
  • It’s a case of “concepts being created by giving names to what is experienced,” and those concepts are defined by experience.
  • If this experience is not something that can be easily shared, it is impossible to convey the definition of the concept
  • Examples of easy sharing
    • Show them an apple and a tomato and say, “They’re both red.”
  • Examples not easily shared
    • A concept found in the differences between each of the three children I raised.
      • Difficult to communicate to someone who maybe has no experience in parenting, I don’t know.
  • Trouble is, it’s hard for “those who’ve been there” to feel “those who haven’t” from now on.
    • Often perceive as “natural” what they have acquired through experience
  • I guess I can at least understand how that could happen.
    • I’m not sure if that’s called understanding, but it doesn’t sound like it can’t be explained.
    • Even if it is not possible to use
  • Related [/nishio/experientially self-explanatory](https://scrapbox.io/nishio/experientially self-explanatory).
  • I see. Most recently.Instacode の良さ、みたいなのを説明するのが難しいという話かな
• Parallel Diary” is obviously a coined term.
• Can you explain this to someone who has not had the “experience of multiple people writing journals on Scrapbox”?
• Depends on the depth of the explanation?
  • I feel I can explain the situation.
  • In-depth explanations are costly for the explainer

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