Comments by "Jovet" (@jovetj) on "Words we've ruined." video.

  1. “What is truth, but a judgment, a perception, of the mind?”
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  2. I don't think that's much of a changing of meaning. People have long had a tendency to especially honor or worship "cute" things.
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  3. Just like jealous often used for envious. 😥
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  4.  @topherthe11th23  “You can put something in italics and enclose it in quotation-marks, and that doesn't give it more prestige or legitimacy.” Well, most people call that a quotation. You didn't have to like it. “Religion is the idea that there are no facts, and that what is to be believed is what God TELLS us to believe.” This is FALSE, just for your information. “Religious people believe that God's authority isn't accountable to true/false distinctions. They make God into a SUBSTITUTE for Truth.” This is vapid nonsense, for your information. Not all religions are created equal, either. You may be a pragmatist, but to a skeptic there is no such thing as 100% firm, knowable truth. Any and all of our perceptions or beliefs are not reliable.
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  5.  @001variation  A lot of math around it makes a lot of sense, if you want to call that evidence. QUESTION EVERYTHING!
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  6. So are they.
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  7. It's ignorance. Sheer ignorance. Mr. Rob has already done a great video on such mistakes such as you describe. Naturally, I can't think of any examples off the top of my head this moment...
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  8.  @nawark4726  I do believe that the OP's point is that isn't what the word truth is supposed to mean. An actual truth is something that is objectively true for everyone and everything. A so-called "personal truth" is a belief.
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  9. Oh, so true! I've noticed this, too. I tend to complain about fake computer narration voices in YouTube videos, and other people call them "AI voices" when they have nothing whatsoever to do with artificial intelligence. Some people are just not interested in the details. I'll side with Peter—the details matter so we can communicate with each other effectively. Unfortunately, languages evolve from use and misuse, and we cannot arrest that.
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  10.  @001variation  String theory (M theory) can make predictions. Right now those predictions are theoretically mathematical, but they won't necessarily stay that way indefinitely. Some things used to be thought impossible and today we know they're not.
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  11. I've always taken bemused to mean "confused or perplexed in an amusing, non-frustrating, laid-back fashion."
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  12.  @topherthe11th23  Oh, please. People quote others all the time, and they don't know the source. It's still a quotation. You may not know who invented the calculator you're using but it's still an invention. I'm happy for you that you've neatly packaged up religious belief or experience NOT shared or experienced by you into cute little nuggets that you can twist and discard. It must be so reassuring to believe that you have everything figured out. Do you, at least, recognize your closed mind? You talk about trusting truth proved by others but you have no faith in those others at all. I don't believe you've ever actually known or talked to a religious person. You have no idea what makes one tick. Who imposes the limits on what you can know—yourself or others? I agree with your last sentence. Thank you for admitting that the idea of truth only manifests in the imagination. I rest my proverbial case.
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  13.  @rhoharane  Fantastic statement. Agree wholeheartedly. Bravo!
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  14.  @davidgould9431  I know, I was making a little joke. Though, the imaginary and real parts can be separated... they're just not complex numbers any longer.
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  15. 0:43 The words racist and racism immediately come to my mind. I'm often annoyed by people using jealous for envious.
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  16. I'll take color over colour every day!
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  17. Thank you Mr. Rob. This video helps me repose and becalm. It's a great unlax for us grammar nerds.
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  18.  @bleesev2  Also very good points! It's reassuring that there are actually thoughtful people in a off-the-cuff discussion like this, versus bitter old "wise" men. It's not like these types of things have not been discussed and explored since man grew a brain, and it's not gonna be solved here, either.
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  19.  @derekmills5394  "Cute" and "adorable" are still just opinions. Same for "pretty" "beautiful" "voluptuous" "ugly" "uncomely" "fat" "skinny" "hairy" "loud" "quiet" "tall" "short" "sexy" and so on....
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  20. It's so complex, too. Languages naturally evolve, both from use in isolation and ignorance of the masses. It cannot be stopped, as reassuring as it would be to curtail it.
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  21.  @attilajuhasz2526  I'm not etymologist, but it would be interesting to study how many words are added versus how many words are altered per annum. Both are happening all the time.
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  22. I thought of another word: fresh A marketting "genius" has decided that "fresh frozen" is a thing, and it's better than something that's just "frozen" ...even though it makes no sense whatsoever.
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  23.  @topherthe11th23  “Someone can imagine fire being hot. That doesn't mean that it's not objectively true that fire is hot.” What is objectively hot? Is it 20 degrees? 200 degrees? 2000 degrees? There's no such thing as "objectively hot." Perhaps the Planck temperature is objectively hot? “I talk to religious people frequently, and I find what they say appalling.” Uh huh. Perhaps I should "talk to" the same "religious" people you do... I don't find people's beliefs appalling merely because they are religious people. I'm intrigued by your feeling threatened by the beliefs (or truths!) of others. “You're that person who believes that if a tree falls in an empty forest it doesn't vibrate the gas-particles in the air near its surfaces (i.e. "make a noise"), who can't differentiate between a noise and some being hearing the noise.” ”The vast majority of people don't have a problem with the idea that something can happen while nobody knows that it happened. Your response will be "then how do you KNOW it happened?"” Poppycock. My response is what difference does it make? “You seem to be much about the idea that if humans can't reliably know what is true, then truth doesn't exist.” My belief is that the human perception of (what we call) reality is not necessarily reality. It's challenging to be sure of absolute truth if one can't be absolutely sure of reality. A truth I'd like to believe is real is that 2+2=4. We can derive a proof of that. But, the very fine line between reality and truth is murky. Part of the human experience is the quest to understand that line. “That doesn't mean that the only things that exist are human perceptions, and it doesn't mean that the things being unreliably perceived don't have an existence independent of the mind perceiving them.” Are you sure about that? The only thing any human knows about the environment (or reality) is what he perceives or reasons from those perceptions. That's the whole point of this discussion: how does a person perceive truth? What can the word truly mean beyond the human experience? Are the two separable? Hearing voices does not mean someone nearby is actually talking to you. But for the person hearing them, it can be difficult or impossible to tell the difference. What is the truth about the voices if two people hear them but not a third? If our reality is some kind of simulation as some have proposed, does that make it real or not real? (These are all rhetorical questions. You are not expected nor equipped to answer them.)
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  24.  @jacksonhorrocks4281  Now you're getting it. Practice bending that fork!
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  25.  @joeware  Yeah, contrary to the marketing hype, there is no such thing as "the cloud". If you mean "a server somewhere" then just state that.
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  26. What about complex numbers? :ducks:
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  27. The sound effect in this video is better than the word. Can we just use that as the word?
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  28. What about degrees of being pregnant?
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  29.  @karlfimm  I like exclusive or even sui generis. I'd rather English come up with a plural form of you first, though.
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  30.  @farmerjohn6192  I'm well aware that "you" is plural. It just also happens to be the singular. Thee is an archaic equivalent of you, but thy is an archaic form of yours. I don't understand your point.
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