#languagegames — Public Fediverse posts

Is all language metaphor? 🧐

https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/04/when-everything-is-metaphor-nothing-is/?utm_source=masto

I posted this last night. A follower chimed in. His speciality is anthropology.

Philippe Descola’s framework in Beyond Nature and Culture outlines four ontological regimes:

• Naturalism (the modern Western default)
• Animism
• Totemism
• Analogism

#philosophy #psychology #anthropology #cognitivescience #cognition #worldview #ontology #grammar #metaphor #Lakoff #Wittgenstein #languagegames #blog #podcast #anthropology

Artifact drop: Constructivist Lens.
Tap to rewrite your ontology as metaphor. Because “truth” was always a house rule.

🔗 https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/31/constructivist-lens-artifact/

#Philosophy #Constructivism #MTG #Satire #CriticalTheory #parody #Postmodernism #Rorty #blog #sociology #psychology #LanguageGames #Philosophics

Centipede and millipede imply the existence of:

#LanguageGames

At my old company I started #thunFursday as a way for designers and other folk to relax and get a little silly creating weird things. Each week we would have a theme and #spoonerisms were encouraged. #LanguageGames, #visualPuns, #visPo #art anything goes, just be respectful of others. And as a theme to kick things off lets try: SPOONERISMS

#ACGrayling - #WittgensteinsGames

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1v127X-Ydc&ab_channel=PhilosophyHub

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage #AnalyticPhilosophy #Meaning #Math #Maths #Mathematics #Competition #Logic #Language #MeaningOfLanguage #LanguageGame #LanguageGames #Uncertainty #Silence #Religion

“Identification of one’s own gods with the gods of other peoples. One convinces oneself that the #Names have the same meaning.” -- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Translation #Untranslation #Language #LanguageGames