The word "altruism"
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The word "altruism"
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by Keep It Real » Nov 25, 2017 8:03 pm
Bears a striking resemblance to "all truism". An ultimate truth? Koinkidink?
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Re: The word "altruism"
#2 by BlackBart » Nov 27, 2017 11:29 am
It's root is 'altrui' which is italian for 'other people', so yes, merely coincidence. The word 'truism' just means something that is self evidently true and not particular useful or enlightening ('If that ball has gone in the net, it'd have been a goal')
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Re: The word "altruism"
#3 by Keep It Real » Nov 29, 2017 5:09 pm
Very informative BB - it's a serendipitous coincidence however IMO.
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Re: The word "altruism"
#4 by LucidFlight » Nov 29, 2017 6:41 pm
Alt-truism, aka fake news. Y'all a bunch of commies.
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Re: The word "altruism"
#5 by SafeAsMilk » Nov 29, 2017 6:46 pm
Keep It Real wrote:Very informative BB - it's a serendipitous coincidence however IMO.
Not sure how since altruism and truism aren't in any way alike in meaning. Unless you think serendipitous is just like some other word with which it shares no meaning.
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Re: The word "altruism"
#6 by laklak » Nov 29, 2017 6:53 pm
I'd be a lot more altruistic if there was more in it for me.
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Re: The word "altruism"
#7 by BlackBart » Nov 30, 2017 8:47 am
Keep It Real wrote:Very informative BB - it's a serendipitous coincidence however IMO.
In what way is it serendiptious?
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Re: The word "altruism"
#8 by Keep It Real » Nov 30, 2017 7:15 pm
Well; I think it was Vygotsky...hang on let me check...yep luke warm results on google so he probably was there. Anyway - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity so if a word sounds like "universal truth" it might inspire respect/adherence.
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Re: The word "altruism"
#9 by SafeAsMilk » Dec 01, 2017 4:00 am
You really have to stretch truism to mean "universal truth". I mean, I guess "water is wet" is a "universal truth", but...
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Re: The word "altruism"
#10 by BlackBart » Dec 01, 2017 7:39 am
Probably simpler to understand the literal meaning of 'altruism' is in the first place than some word game that the producers of '3-2-1' would probably reject as a bit too convoluted.
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Re: The word "altruism"
#11 by Fallible » Dec 01, 2017 9:02 am
You’re just jealous because you can’t do the finger thing.
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Re: The word "altruism"
#12 by BlackBart » Dec 01, 2017 3:43 pm
Can. Just don't want to is all. 
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Re: The word "altruism"
#13 by Fallible » Dec 01, 2017 6:26 pm
Sure.
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