#languageinsufficiency — Public Fediverse posts

Language is overrated. In this Substack piece, I scrutinise language and the fact that much of language is extraneous. As for spoken language, many utterances are not strictly necessary, though they are functional.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/pass-the-salt

I shake hands with #Austin, #Derrida, #Searle, #Wittgenstein, #Nietzsche, and #Barthes on this journey – even a bout with #Pinker.

#philosophy #language #languageinsufficiency #salt #justice #blog #podcast #artificialintelligence #robots #parsing

I share my core philosophical positions on Substack.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/a-provisional-map-of-my-philosophical?r=pvxh5

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#philosophy #metaphilosophy #ontology #objectivity #selfhood #ontologicalgrammar #language #languageinsufficiency #minds #ai #artificialintelligence #ethics #agency #substack #blog #podcast #video #subjectivity #institutions #law #map #history #politics #governance

This article is less about what philosophy is about and more about why we can't particularly know some things, and why not.

👉 https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/what-is-philosophy?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=masto&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#blog #substack #philosophy #language #ontology #semantics #semiotics #epistemology #etymology #communication #Heidegger #Derrida #Foucault #Wittgenstein #Nietzsche #Gadamer #Peirce #Gallie #McGilchrist #languageinsufficiency

Accountability is under the microscope. 🔬

👉 https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/the-disambiguation-cost-of-accountability?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=masto&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I have long been suspicious of the grammar of accountability, so I am considering publishing an essay on the topic. Much has already been written about this weasel word, a favoured spirit animal by corporations and now adopted by the AI Ethics cohorts.

#philosophy #language #accountability #governance #ethics #aiethics #institutions #authority #substack #blog #essay #ontologicalgrammar #languageinsufficiency #lih

A video summary of Chapter 3 of A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis
https://youtu.be/wRJFc56TeP8

Complete chapter on Substack: https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/a-language-insufficiency-hypothesis

#video #philosophy #language #languageinsufficiency #substack

On Philosophics Blog, I consider how ontological grammar commitments confound English translations of Hegel.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/06/04/titrating-hegel/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#philosophy #language #hegel #geist #ontologicalgrammar #metaphysics #spirit #mind #languageinsufficiency #translation #blog #podcast #video #ontology

In this essay, I investigate the ideas of Stuart Hall in light of my own. Hall and I have many commonalities in the operation of language, but my enterprise is broader and deeper, as his was ostensibly limited to media.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/the-floor-beneath-hall?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#philosophy #language #substack #blog #podcast #grammar #ontology #agency #Gramsci #semiotics #encoding #ideology #architecture #encounter #languageinsufficiency #response #agentic #media

Language is not the bridge. I respond to another Substack post – one I agree with 85 % – but the missing portion is key.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/language-is-not-the-bridge?r=pvxh5

#philosophy #language #bridges #communication #ontology #systems #ontologicalgrammar #languageinsufficiency #artificialintelligence #knowledgegraphs #metadata #infrastructucture #systems #semantics #substack #blog #podcast #essay #writing #metaphor #model #schema #protocol

In this Substack, I reveal the sleight of hand psychologists use to domesticate ideas from philosophy and other disciplines by critiquing an essay on nihilism and Anhedonia.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/nihilism-is-not-a-symptom?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#Nihilism #ExistentialNihilism #PsychologyCritique #Anhedonia #Metaethics #LanguageInsufficiency #Philosophy #MeaningOfLife #SemanticDrift #LanguageInsufficiency #PsychologyCritique #blog #podcast #essay #reading #writing #pathology

Truth, Subjectivity, and Constraint is my latest blog post.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/16/truth-subjectivity-and-constraint/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I've been writing about 'Truth' on this blog since 2018, and I am clarifying my position based on my latest book, An Architecture of Encounter.

#philosophy #psychology #empitemology #ontology #truth #language #LanguageInsufficiency #perception #mediation #blog #podcast

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, a trivial bookkeeping device.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/29/truth-after-deflation-why-truth-refuses-to-behave/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #truth #essay #blog #podcast #analyticphilosophy #philosophyoflanguage #epistemology #metaphysics #tools #pragmatism #languageinsufficiency #disintegration #philosophics

The trouble with facts is that they cannot be directly observed.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/22/the-trouble-with-facts/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #epistemology #ontology #facts #objectivity #mediation #interpretation #causation #abduction #posthoc #cognitivebias #perception #sensemaking #philosophyofscience #philosophyoflaw #legalreasoning #intent #responsibility #evidence #experts #surveillance #mapandterritory #languageinsufficiency #disintegration #antimodernity #blog #podcast #science

In anticipation of the publication of A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis in January 2026, I have created a Language Insufficiency GPT. 🤖 https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/15/meet-the-language-insufficiency-gpt/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lih
#Language #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Meaning #Semantics #Polysemy #GPT #AI #Philosophy #LanguageInsufficiency #blog #gpt #podcast #rhetoric #communication #truth #justice

Humans and AI share the same creative mechanism: reconfiguration of prior inputs. The Casua Sui myth is comforting, but conservation of energy applies to ideas too. I can’t be causa sui — and neither can you.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/08/11/the-myth-of-causa-sui-creativity/

#Philosophy #Creativity #AI #LanguageInsufficiency #HumanExceptionalism #CriticalThinking