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weird (adj.)

c. 1400,

• "having power to control fate", from wierd (n.), from Old English wyrd "fate, chance, fortune; destiny; the Fates," literally "that which comes,"

• from Proto-Germanic wurthiz (cognates: Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt "fate," Old Norse urðr "fate, one of the three Norns"),

• from PIE wert- "to turn, to wind," (cognates: German werden, Old English weorðan "to become"),

• from root wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus).

• For sense development from "turning" to "becoming," compare phrase turn into "become."

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[–] syncretik 1 points 2 years ago

But then wouldn't that be objectivly true?

I don't know what "objectively true" means. How can I assign meaning to this notion?

I assign meaning to the notion of "truth" in various ways, depending on the context. As an example, when I'm discussing the weather with another person, I have a way to confirm or disconfirm statements about the weather. It's raining if water falls from the sky in small droplets. In our realm at present, this is a conventional way of dealing with truth: I "check" it using evidence from (my) sense perceptions. But it is no less subjective and volitional than any other ways of dealing with the notion of truth.

Originally commented by u/VLSIHeaven on 2018-10-29 07:13:28 (e8mee1b)