Can you understand the world by what you are not?

Question

Can you describe the world by what you are not?

Answer 1

not possible for me to understand the world by what i am not or describe the world by what i am not.

Answer 2

Im at a stalemate here..somethings yes...for everything, then no. Just as what we understand and describe can be deemed true or false. We only understand what we learn and describe what we see, hear, or belief wiether we are these things or not.

it depends what aspects of the world your trying to understand or describe. are you trying to understand it by a scientific, religious, or some other kind of view?

Example: just because someone is not a artist, doesnt mean they cant study art or draw. One artist might not share another artist's view of the world or describe it in the same way.

Yet to someone who hasnt been in the face of battle, they cant describe what war is...only the soldier who has been through that time, faced that battle or served with that man who died or suffered can tell that story. Just like families can understand loss, but no one outside can feel their pain. Yet many cant understand why ..like why the world is how it is. The world may change along with some things and people, yet a lot remain the same.

Answer 3

yes. that is why there is so called motivations. needs, wants and desires or frustrations and envy. we are in a disposition where we think , what have we overlooked among the set of standards others may have set for themselves and we didn't?. We tend to not being able to ignore the fact that sometimes societal class standing has got a lot to do. We understand what we are when we realize that the world seem to have stopped revolving on us when there is stagnancy, no positive changes or improvements-e.g. we haven't had the total experience how it is like to watch on high def.tvs, or how to manipulate an iphone and most of all living a meager life. A simple world, caused by us to ourselves failingly. In contrast, the world never stopped 'catering' to us when we have succeeded unfailingly. The world changes technologically, we also go along with the pace and able to avail ourselves with what the new world has got to offer in no time.
In other words, your poor-your world is obsolete-basics; low social standing;low standards;simple means;simple life with a simple mind. Your rich, your world is high tech. higher social standing,high standards,complex means,complex life.

Answer 4

Well the answer depends on what you believe. But the world of infinite possibilites is definetively able to be understood through observation. Thus yes your not this or that, but u can understand this or that by watching the example of such. One does not need total understanding of a subject to describe by what one already has seen.

Answer 5

This is an incredibly important question!

We, in virtue of being human, frequently find ourselves unable to define things precisely; there are many examples of this. The easiest, for this example, is Justice.

If I were to ask you what Justice is, you would probably have a pretty durned hard time answering; even if you could come up with an answer, lots of folks would probably disagree with you in lots of different ways.

But, interestingly, both you and probably most of your Negative Nancy Naysayers would agree on the Injustice of certain things - a passerby refusing to save a drowning child because it would ruin their shoes, an innocent man being punished despite his apparent innocence; it's easy to find examples here.

So... since we cannot easily define Justice, should we thus expel it from our minds wholesale?

No, of course not! As we indicate (individually and societally) that which is clearly Unjust, we bring ourselves closer and closer to The Truth - and taking tiny steps toward The Truth is surely better than quitting because you can't grab the answers right away.

Here's the Tricky Bit: This is (kinda) easy with virtues, like Justice or Equality, but when you start getting into The Big One, that is, YOU, and YOUR SELF, it gets all kinds of mucked up. Here's why:

- There are some things which are pretty easy to figure out as YOU. Your fingers, your emotions, your dreams...

- Wait a sec, NONE of those are easily defended as part of yourself! Fingers can be removed and You remain. I certainly sometimes feel emotions which are totally alien to my Self, urges and impulses; it is only by applying my Self upon them that I am able to maintain reason - and dreams? Books, Yahoos, books could be written on whether or not our Dreams are part of us.

... I reckon the short answer is (ha ha!) Yes and No. Descartes tells us that we are only aware of our own existence because we are able to think; specifically, we are able to say "Am I?" and in saying, something (someself?) has to be doing the asking.

Beyond that? Sister, you gots to figure it on your own.

Answer 6

Yes!!!
There Is a small change I would like to make in your Question With your consent" not you are not But not this not this"
' Nethi Nethi ' means not this no this by saying this we actually do not say that there is nothing but , there must be something that is God but not this Since we can express it completely.
God is not expressible in total as most of him is not manifested so how to describe that part in words, as that part is above words.

Answer 7

I am inseparable from the whole world. To say that any part of it is not me is to remove something vital from my experience. So, no I cannot describe what is me by what is not.

Answer 8

You can but it wouldn't be a fair reflection of the world. It's better to live with experience than learn it second hand.

Answer 9

I am not a chicken
I am not a verb
I an not a cake
I am not a building
I am not a cherry
I am not a pill
I am not a pie
I am not a fig
I am not a tree
I am not water
I am not oxygen
I am not a vegtable
Gosh.............it is going to take forever to narrow down what I actually am.


PLEASE YOU DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH WELL DO YOU?
ASK QUESTIONS TO PEOPLE WHO SPEAK YOUR LINGO

Answer 10

No, the world is seen entirely from your point of view and is a reflection of who you truly are.