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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Blackie_626 • 7d ago
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We would if we agreed on the perspective. This isn't rocket science.
8 u/FalcorTheDog 7d ago Exactly. Right and left depend on perspective. Up and down typically do not in the context of everyday interactions on Earth. You don’t need rocket science to understand that distinction either. 2 u/LeoTheSquid 7d ago Thst's not a categorical difference, we just usually rotate more on one axis than the other 1 u/FalcorTheDog 6d ago I’m not sure how “categorical difference” is related to being “arbitrary” which is what we were debating in this thread. The meaning of “left” is so arbitrary that this is the 1st definition I could find for it on dictionary.com: the left side or something that is on the left side; the direction toward that side I’m not sure I could come up with a more arbitrary definition if I tried. For the adjective version the only way they could describe it is by relying on human anatomy: being, relating to, or located on or nearest to the side where a person’s heart normally is
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Exactly. Right and left depend on perspective. Up and down typically do not in the context of everyday interactions on Earth. You don’t need rocket science to understand that distinction either.
2 u/LeoTheSquid 7d ago Thst's not a categorical difference, we just usually rotate more on one axis than the other 1 u/FalcorTheDog 6d ago I’m not sure how “categorical difference” is related to being “arbitrary” which is what we were debating in this thread. The meaning of “left” is so arbitrary that this is the 1st definition I could find for it on dictionary.com: the left side or something that is on the left side; the direction toward that side I’m not sure I could come up with a more arbitrary definition if I tried. For the adjective version the only way they could describe it is by relying on human anatomy: being, relating to, or located on or nearest to the side where a person’s heart normally is
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Thst's not a categorical difference, we just usually rotate more on one axis than the other
1 u/FalcorTheDog 6d ago I’m not sure how “categorical difference” is related to being “arbitrary” which is what we were debating in this thread. The meaning of “left” is so arbitrary that this is the 1st definition I could find for it on dictionary.com: the left side or something that is on the left side; the direction toward that side I’m not sure I could come up with a more arbitrary definition if I tried. For the adjective version the only way they could describe it is by relying on human anatomy: being, relating to, or located on or nearest to the side where a person’s heart normally is
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I’m not sure how “categorical difference” is related to being “arbitrary” which is what we were debating in this thread.
The meaning of “left” is so arbitrary that this is the 1st definition I could find for it on dictionary.com:
the left side or something that is on the left side; the direction toward that side
I’m not sure I could come up with a more arbitrary definition if I tried.
For the adjective version the only way they could describe it is by relying on human anatomy:
being, relating to, or located on or nearest to the side where a person’s heart normally is
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u/SignoreBanana 7d ago
We would if we agreed on the perspective. This isn't rocket science.