Ever wondered how language reshaped 20th-century philosophy? The linguistic turn, pioneered by figures like Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations), shifted focus to how language constructs reality—sparking debates that still shape modern discourse (Q1513072) #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Wittgenstein

Marcelo Dascal, the Israeli philosopher and linguist known for his work on pragmatics and argumentation, honed his intellect at the University of São Paulo—a hub for thinkers challenging linguistic norms. (Q6756540) #Pragmatics #PhilosophyOfLanguage

5/10: Language & power are constitutive. We experience reality through symbolic mediation. Discourses and norms are not just descriptive but ontologically formative—they shape what can appear as “real.” #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Discourse #Power

Truth After Deflation: Why ‘Truth’ Refuses to Behave I’ve long had a problem with Truth – or at least the notion of it. It gets way too much credit for doing niot much at all. For a long time now, philosophers have agreed on something uncomfort…

To tell the truth, I just posted an essay on the truth. Many philosophers have written about Truth over the years, but truth is just a tool.
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#philosophy #truth #essay #blog #podcast #philosophyoflanguage #epistemology #metaphysics #tools #pragmatism

The Expiration Date of Object Permanence There is a persistent story we tell ourselves about quantum mechanics:* that it reveals reality to be fundamentally strange, paradoxical, or hostile to common sense. Particles in two places at once…

Quantum mechanics may not be strange at all. What fails is a childhood heuristic we quietly promoted to metaphysics.
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#PhilosophyOfLanguage #QuantumMechanics #Wittgenstein #Essay #Physics #DeflationaryPhilosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Philosophy #Blog #Podcast

Portrait of the speaker Guendalina Reul

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The Multilayered Nature of Ad Hoc Metonymy: Evidence from EEG
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Did you know the concept of 'game' transcends mere play? Philosophers like Wittgenstein explored it as a lens for understanding language and rules, reshaping debates on meaning and communication. (Q17631654) #LanguageGames #PhilosophyOfLanguage

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I evaluate #Justice as a house of cards through the lens of a language insufficiency hypothesis
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Meet the Language Insufficiency GPT Language is widely assumed to be stable: words mean what we think they mean. This GPT is built to show where that assumption quietly collapses—especially for concepts like truth, free speech, IQ, a…

In anticipation of the publication of A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis in January 2026, I have created a Language Insufficiency GPT. 🤖 philosophics.blog/2025/12/15/m...
#Language #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Meaning #Semantics #Polysemy #GPT #AI #Philosophy #LanguageInsufficiency #blog #gpt #podcast

"Change the concepts, and you can change the inferences, and in turn you can change the social, legal, and even scientific practices."

#philsky #concepts #philosophyoflanguage #metaphysics

Did you know the "linguistic turn" reshaped 20th-century philosophy by making language the central focus? Sparked by Wittgenstein & Carnap, it challenged metaphysics and still shapes AI ethics debates today. (Q1513072) #PhilosophyOfLanguage #WittgensteinLegacy

Interesting to think about in connection with (pseudo?) sentences like "Colourless green ideas sleep furiously", whose meaning can hardly he exported…
#PhilosophyOfLanguage #philosophy

Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language at 40 | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language at 40

#philsky #philosophyoflanguage #philosophyofmind

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How do texts speak with authority? THE LILY’S TONGUE offers a bold new answer through a nuanced reading of #Kierkegaard’s four Lily Discourses, texts in which lilies are not merely metaphors but authoritative speakers.

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from James and the Giant Peach, the rhinoceros in the animated movie

What if the Frege–Geach problem isn’t a problem at all?

Analytic philosophy built a logical puzzle by assuming moral language works like empirical language. My Language Insufficiency Hypothesis says that’s a category error. Moral predicates live in different […]

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Kumārila comes to this conclusion through the fact that "[she] cooks" can be paraphrased as "[she] does the cooking", where "cooking" corresponds to the verbal root and "does" corresponds to the verbal ending.
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#SanskritPhilosophy #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage

A stylised cubist portrait of a shouting face rendered in angular blue and ochre fragments, as if carved from paper and stone. Geometric shards scatter from the open mouth, symbolising speech breaking into abstraction. The artwork evokes the tension between expression and meaning central to Wittgenstein’s philosophy. The card, titled “Language Game,” mimics a Magic: The Gathering design and bears the text: “Choose one: Counter target statement; or reframe it as metaphor.” Below, a quote reads, “Don’t ask for the meaning, ask for the use.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein. The composition visualises how language constructs, deconstructs, and reshapes thought through use and context.

New card in the Critical Theory parody set: Language Game

Wittgenstein’s warning still stands: meaning isn’t a thing, it’s a use.
We live in the friction between saying and doing, countering and reframing.

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Ever wonder how linguists and philosophers define 'reference'? This core concept underpins debates on meaning and communication, shaping modern theories of language—think Frege and Russell wrestling with sense vs. reference! (Q30419785) #Linguistics #PhilosophyOfLanguage

Philosophy of Language query. “A concept is a data set, meaning impulses from neurons and their analogs. A term is tokenized form of data as per Bridge360 Metatheory Model. Makes sense?”

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If You Don’t Understand How Language Works, You Should Lose Your Licence to Comment on LLMs Bad takes about AI usually reveal more about their author’s ignorance of language than about machines. If you don’t understand semiotics, context, and the messy contingency of words, you’ve lost yo…

Hot take patrol: if you don’t understand how language works, you’re not qualified to critique LLMs. The licence to comment has conditions.

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#LLMs #GenerativeAI #PhilosophyOfLanguage #LanguageMatters #Semiotics #Poststructuralism #PhilosophicsBlog #AuthorLife #AI

8/10 A new philosophical attitude is introduced: "Exosion." Rather than asserting its sovereignty, thought becomes a site where something else passes through. It is not an expression, but an "exposure" to what withdraws. #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Exosion

Robert Stalnaker: Shaping Meaning through Context Pragmatics, Possible Worlds, and the Dynamics of Conversation

Robert Stalnaker: Shaping Meaning through Context
A critical analysis of Robert Stalnaker's influential work on common ground and conversational context. Does his formal framework capture how we actually communicate? #Pragmatics #PhilosophyOfLanguage open.substack.com/pub/linguist...

Philosophizing in African Languages: Past, Present, Future (Anke Graness) – GloPhi – Philosophizing in a Globalized World The African continent was often denied recognition as the home of philosophical schools, traditions or concepts – in part because African languages were considered too underdeveloped to form abstract ...

Philosophizing in African Languages: Past, Present, Future
Lecture by Anke Graness

July 17, 2025, 2:15 pm (CEST)
Cultural Campus, Aula & Live Stream

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#africanphilosophy #Decolonization #IndigenousLanguages #language #multilingualism #PhilosophyOfLanguage

Realisten vs. Nominalisten - Dualismus "Denken vs. Sprache" Realisten vs. Nominalisten - der alte Dualismus "Denken vs. Sprache" wird anhand des mittelalterlichen "Universalienstreits" beleuchtet

#Realists vs. #nominalists - or the old #dualism #thought vs. #language

#construction #reality #reality #constructivism #realism #philosophy #ontology #epistemology #philosophyoflanguage

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Did you know Friedrich Waismann introduced "open texture" to describe language's inherent vagueness? This Vienna Circle member (and Wittgenstein's student) challenged rigid definitions, shaping modern debates about meaning. (Q7096433) #PhilosophyOfLanguage #ViennaCircle

Ever wondered how philosophy tackles vagueness? Supervaluationism, a semantic framework, emerged to handle irreferential terms and fuzzy boundaries, challenging traditional logic. It’s shaping modern debates on language and meaning! (Q17141227) #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Vagueness #Semantics

"Willard Van Orman Quine was a philosopher who fundamentally transformed 20th-century analytic philosophy and had a lasting impact on cognitive science."

Don't forget to read the full post!

#cogist #cogistorigins #philosophy #philosophyoflanguage #philLang #language #psychology #mind #cognition

Interesting thread (if you count the questions and replies) on imperatives and on whether a single theory covering all cases is at all possible.
#Philosophy #PhilosophyofLanguage

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We invite applications for two fully funded #PhD positions in a project on "multimodal argumentation" (https://sites.google.com/rug.nl/multimodal/home - especially interesting for applicants with an interest in #DiscourseAnalysis, #linguistics, and/or the #philosophy of #argumentation and […]