from Coining your own terminology Who frequently use coined word in communication

  • I’ve coined a term and used it, and sometimes I see people doing that in communities that deal with philosophy./villagepump/biwachi.icon
    • They use it as a matter of course, but I can’t find it when I look it up, and it’s very annoying.
    • If you ask what it means, the definition is vague or already defined in other words
    • Very high context is there, but they don’t realize it and don’t communicate well
  • is often the caseplaying smart の一種なのかなーと思う/villagepump/nishio.icon
    • Yeah, well, playing smart is a fitting expression./villagepump/biwachi.icon
      • He may be trying to act like a philosopher, though he may not be aware of it.
      • Maybe I shouldn’t be too evil about it, but…
  • You know, playing smart.stinging (barbed) words 感ある/villagepump/inajob.icon
    • Is it because it sounds like it implies that I’m not smart?
  • I see/villagepump/nishio.icon
    • This is exactly what the Intention to insult diagram shows.
    • Implicitly, they think you’re not smart enough, which is why they use the nuanced term “not smart enough.”
    • I haven’t identified the person I’m talking to, and they’re not here, but if they were, I’d be “insulted!” again. If they were here, I would be “insulted!
    • It’s not good that “not smart” is vaguely derogatory.
      • Objective if you’re “someone who frequently coined terms in your communication.”
      • But that would involve decent mathematicians and philosophers.
      • Mathematicians define concepts in language, but philosophers don’t necessarily.
    • I’ve given it some thought, but I’m not sure I can identify it.
      • When you observe a person “speaking with a coined word that you don’t quite know the definition of,” you don’t know if that person is smart or not.
      • It’s not a good idea to say, “You must be trying to look smart,” because it’s a judgment about another person’s inner life, the same kind of thing as, “You must be trying to insult me.

少し考えてみたけど識別はできないかも/villagepump/nishio.icon

  • Suppose a person A coined a word W to express a certain concept M.
    • I can’t determine if A already has a word X that expresses concept M and I just don’t know it.
    • So the act of assigning the coined word W to the concept you want to express anyway is not in itself inevitable.
  • Suppose a person B asks A what W means and does not understand the explanation. At this time
    • Is it that “A doesn’t really know what W means” or that “the concept to which W refers is ambiguous?”
    • I don’t understand why B doesn’t have the prerequisite knowledge to understand A’s explanation.
    • This is not identifiable.
  • When some person B thinks that the meaning of W is the same as the existing word X
    • Is the meaning actually the same?
    • I’m not sure if B just doesn’t understand the difference now between X and W that A is trying to distinguish.
    • This is not identifiable.
  • So nothing on an objective scale of “smart”, “dumb”, or “playing smart” can be determined from these phenomena.
    • From Mr. B’s point of view, Mr. A’s statement is unintelligible and unhelpful, so much for the fact
    • It is only an interpretation to think that the cause of the problem lies in A or in B.
    • As a subjective measure, for Mr. B, “the probability is high that Mr. A’s statement is futile.”

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