Jabberwocky/Tutorial Game
I just wanted to kind of add on to what both Tawny and Natalie discussed in their postings about Jabberwocky and the games we played in tutorial last week. I was thinking about the game that we played where everyone had to make a definition for a word that they were not familiar with and how this sort of relates to the discussions we had earlier in the course about relativism. I thought it was interesting how everyone had such different definitions and how when given a word without knowing the meaning, the word meant different things to everyone. This relates to relativism because it agrees with the idea that at least in some situations ideas or associations are unique to the individual. Of course, the problem with everyone having different definitions for the same word is that without an agreed upon definition there would be no way to communicate using that particular word, making it nonsensical like many of the words in Jabberwocky.
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