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Also related: Experimental Economist Bart Wilson on the Meaning of "Fair" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaFpB7z5y3Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaFpB7z5y3Y
by splat 16y ago
Also related: Experimental Economist Bart Wilson on the Meaning of "Fair"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaFpB7z5y3Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaFpB7z5y3Y
- gyardley 16y agoFascinating - the researcher in the video mentioned that 'fair' is an English-language concept without a precise one-to-one translation in other languages. Briefly messing about with Google Translate seems to bear this out - for many of the other languages I checked, Google suggested one word meaning 'just' and another meaning 'equitable'.
- cema 16y agoDeep down these are philosophical concepts, so it should not be surprising that different natural languages developed words with slightly different shades of meaning. Language may be misleading too. For example, I think that the fair in "fair game" is different from the fair as in "fair society".