does complicated words mean you are a philosopher or trying to be one??

Answer 1

You can speak important words and have all the depth of a puddle... looking and speaking as a person of learning does not make it so. Wisdom is not an exclusive possession of the one with the largest vocabulary...

Answer 2

This question is quite interesting.
We could claim that to have a larger vocabulary is to see a more complex world. Simply consider the difference in the world that a 5 year old 'sees' because of his/her vocubulary versus what a 25 year old 'sees.' The complexities of distinctions--like the difference between "a car" (5 yr old) and "a ferrari" (25 yr old)--makes for a different way of understanding, communicating, and knowing the world. We seem to know more when we have more ways to define it. So, in the previous case, if both the 5 yr old and 25 yr old SEE the same thing but one calls it a "car" and the other "ferrari"--we realize that if we trust the vocabulary of the older one that it is not JUST a car but a very specific car with very specific elements and attributes. So, in philosophy we find a similar scenario, those who know words like epistemology, ontology, axiology, noumena, a priori, a posteriori, phenomenology, etc. AND who use them appropriately--to address say the nature of Being--are indeed philosophers. Does this mean that those words are both necessary and/or sufficient to DO philosophy? Probably not. But consider them tools. As such, determine if you trust the plumber who comes with a hammer and a screwdriver only OR the plumber who comes with an array of various tools. Which do you want to trust with your toilet?

Having said that, I also would add that often people make up "complicated" words that serve no function but to be complicated. Any one could throw a ton of prefixes and suffixes together to make nonsense; the point is to make meaning. For example, hyper-pseudo-cyber-morphicationalism could be a "complicated" word, but it is just junk. When all is said and done, WHAT meaning can the person/philosopher bring to the table (regardless of vocabulary)?


P.S.--Note: My "made up" word is so long that the filter for Yahoo only places the elipses (or ...) after it. It shows that Yahoo's filter doesn't really like "complicated" words.

Answer 3

No. Just because you use bit words doesn't mean you are a philosipher
It can just mean you were educated well or are simply making an attempt to appear more intelligent than you actually are.
It just so happens that philiosophers tend to use alot of 'big words' but remeber, complicated words may have little purpose. The may not give the meaning of a phrase - just confuse an individual.

Let me illiterate
This was not written by a philosopher but uses many complicated words:

''Two individuals proceeded towards the apex of a natural geologic protuberance, the purpose of their expedition being the procurement of a sample of fluid hydride of oxygen in a large vessel, the exact size of which was unspecified. One member of the team precipitously descended, sustaining severe damage to the upper cranial portion of his anatomical structure; subsequently the second member of the team performed a self-rotational translation oriented in the same direction taken by the first team member. ''

However, another individual may choose just to say

'Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after! '

See what I'm on about.
Big words often do nothing but complicate a simple phrase!

Answer 4

Philosophy does not have to be complicated. Some times people try to sound more intellectual by using words with five or more syllables . But in real philosophy simple is sometimes better. There was a story of a philosophy professor that gave this question as his final test. 1.) Why?

Most students spent the next hour and a half writing page after page to answer this perplexing question. One student boldly wrote the words "Why not?" and turned in his test.

He got an A+. Simple but I think appropriate.

Answer 5

No. By which I believe you are asking, ' Does using complicated words mean you are.....'

Complicate words share little purpose if they complicate: words are meant to convey meaning, not confound it.

But there does serve a purpose often to use a complicated word where this economizes communication.

That is, if I can use one word that otherwise requires me to use an entire sentence, then the complicated word does import the greatest facility to all concerned and the mission at hand.

Outside of this, there is little need to opt for the use of a complicated word -- certainly not simply to impress someone or to convey a conviction of genius -- though syntax does have its octaves or stations as testament to the essays written by men and women of Letters throughout the 18th and 19th Centuries, especially in Britain and America, during which period not only were words chosen for economy sake but as well were the sentences themselves structured to succeed at the best economy.

During that time, the proper placement of words and syntax was practically reflexive, without them having to belabor the communication of it all, so stellar was their techniqe.

Answer 6

Absolutely no! A philosopher all ways complicated and need to think more and never to be one like how you thinking every things

Answer 7

I think it speaks of the complicated mind behind the speaker. It does not necessarily mean a philosophical frame of mind always.

Answer 8

Doctor use complicated words. Are they philosophers?
Psychiatrists use complicated words. Are they philosophers?
Tax man use complicated words. Are they philosophers?

Answer 9

Compilcated words are used by more than philosophers! Generally, a person who is highly educated and works in an atmosphere where such words are expected, these "complicated" words become our vocabulary.

I have seen many pseudo intelligent people use these words and I get tickled when they use them out of context!

There is really no need to use such unless you are in the atmosphere where it is required!

Answer 10

Anyone can be a philosopher... no matter how complicated the thoughts maybe.

Answer 11

Everybody is a philosopher in their own way, because philosophy isn't just the big questions. Philosophy is any question without an answer or a question with too many answers, or theories.