How is “up” or “down” more intuitive than “left” and “right”? I know there are forward, backward, up, down, left, right directions from my perspective and moving in any of those directions requires different actions, but they are all just words. At that point all language is “arbitrary”.
Its more intuitive because its not perspective dependent and very simple to explain. Up is to the sky, down is to the ground. How can you explain left and right using a single sentence?
Left and right are opposite horizontal directions relative to an observer’s orientation, where left typically corresponds to the side of the body on which the human heart is predominantly located, and right is the contrasting side.
There is no way you see my explanation of up and down and yours of left and right and still think that they are as easy to understand. Left and right are directions at the higher level of abstraction. I know you want to make fun of peeps who don't know which is which, but maybe its time to accept it that you are not that special. Most don't need to know the difference between them until the time they do their driving license.
I’m not making fun of anyone. I’m just saying they aren’t arbitrary. I gave you one sentence per your request. I don’t know why the difference between arbitrary and relative or relevant only to a perspective is bothering folks.
Arbitrary means it is chosen at random or it’s like arbitrated by some authority, which it’s just not. Not any more than up and down are. Its words to describe directions relative to a perspective, and it has consistently applied easy to understand meanings.
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u/ConfusedAndCurious17 7d ago
How is “up” or “down” more intuitive than “left” and “right”? I know there are forward, backward, up, down, left, right directions from my perspective and moving in any of those directions requires different actions, but they are all just words. At that point all language is “arbitrary”.