#ontology — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ontology, aggregated by home.social.
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🧵 New CoD Case Study: Nicola Guarino
Guarino's formal methodology isn't a rival ontology, yet it carries an implicit substance-commitment. This analysis shows how this methodology assumes relations as secondary to stable entities.
How does the CoD's process-relational approach account for what Guarino's methodology assumes? Find out: https://www.johnmackay.net/cod-thesis-c0350-nicola-guarino.htm
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Seeing red? Colour exists – sort of. What's the catch?
I discuss the encounter of colour in this article, which builds on The Architecture of Encounter. Colour theory, to arms!
#philosophy #perspective #perception #colour #cognition #ontology #disintegrationism #blog #substack #encounter #red #vision #eyes
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Seeing red? Colour exists – sort of. What's the catch?
I discuss the encounter of colour in this article, which builds on The Architecture of Encounter. Colour theory, to arms!
#philosophy #perspective #perception #colour #cognition #ontology #disintegrationism #blog #substack #encounter #red #vision #eyes
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Seeing red? Colour exists – sort of. What's the catch?
I discuss the encounter of colour in this article, which builds on The Architecture of Encounter. Colour theory, to arms!
#philosophy #perspective #perception #colour #cognition #ontology #disintegrationism #blog #substack #encounter #red #vision #eyes
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Seeing red? Colour exists – sort of. What's the catch?
I discuss the encounter of colour in this article, which builds on The Architecture of Encounter. Colour theory, to arms!
#philosophy #perspective #perception #colour #cognition #ontology #disintegrationism #blog #substack #encounter #red #vision #eyes
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Seeing red? Colour exists – sort of. What's the catch?
I discuss the encounter of colour in this article, which builds on The Architecture of Encounter. Colour theory, to arms!
#philosophy #perspective #perception #colour #cognition #ontology #disintegrationism #blog #substack #encounter #red #vision #eyes
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Hegel, le perspectivisme et la vie réflexive du monde
Hegel ne dit pas que l’esprit fabrique le monde : il dit que le monde n’apparaît pas pareil à tous les vivants. Ce qui compte, c’est la forme de vie qui rend certaines choses saillantes, pensables, discutables. L’humain, auto-conscient, vit dans une tension réflexive permanente. #Hegel #Philosophy #Perspectivism #CriticalTheory #Ontology Chez Hegel, l’idéalisme ne consiste ni à dire que la réalité est mentale, ni à…
https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/hegel-le-perspectivisme-et-la-vie-reflexive-du-monde/
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I’ve been reading Žižek and Heidegger lately. Žižek labels himself a Communist (politics), Lacanian (method), and Heideggerian (ontology), so I asked Claude and ChatGPT how I fared.
#politics #philosphy #ontology #method #zizek #blog #video #podcast #substack #introspection #extrospection #Wittgenstein #pluralism #perspective #biography #rovelli #being #relata #relationships #philosopher
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I was up for hours this morning chatting with Claude about the meaning of Meaning, and I lived to tell the tale.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/capital-letters-trade-marks-and-other?r=pvxh5
#philosophy #ontology #truth #meaning #semantics #semiotics #orthography #language #metaphysics #orthography #deconstruction #typography #blog #substack #podcast #video
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Heidegger plays the same dodgy language games in The Essence of Truth and Being and Time.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/chess-with-heidegger?r=pvxh5
I discuss this legerdemain on Substack.
#philosophy #language #Heidegger #Wittgenstein #ontology #satire #blog #video #podcast #chess #criticaltheory
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This article is less about what philosophy is about and more about why we can't particularly know some things, and why not.
#blog #substack #philosophy #language #ontology #semantics #semiotics #epistemology #etymology #communication #Heidegger #Derrida #Foucault #Wittgenstein #Nietzsche #Gadamer #Peirce #Gallie #McGilchrist #languageinsufficiency
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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
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I've argued that property rights are immoral. Now, I've shared a pair of posts that argue at a deeper level. This is the first:
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-fence-before-the-field
#Philosophy #substack #blog #podcast #language #ontology #criticaltheory #anarchism #politicalphilosophy #politicaleconomy #economics #locke #rousseau #propertyrights #property #privateproperty
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I crashed a thread and ran off on this tangent to compare my Architecture of Encounter.
I prompted ChatGPT to do the heavy lifting.
#mediation #philosophy #ontology #epistemology #worldbuilding #blog #podcast #constraint #pluralism #metaphysics #grammar #systems #objectivity
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David Ingram ja Jonathan Tallant uusivat äsken SEP-entryään presentismistä, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/presentism/. Sitä lukiessa huomaan välillä hymyileväni. Selitys löytynee kirjoituksen erityisen analyyttisesta ja lukijaa palvelevasta tyylistä, joka näyttää harvinaistuvan tuossakin ensyklopediassa.
Toinen kiintoisa päivitys, Christopher Molen Attention https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/attention/, edustaa pikemmin filosofian naturalisoinnin mukanaan tuomaa, sinänsä ansiokasta empiiris-tieteellisen ajantasan tavoittelua. Se ei samalla tavoin kutittele aikanaan logiikan kautta matematiikka-vammaansa kätellyttä eläkeläistä. Hyytyi myös kenties kuranteimman teeman, huomiotalouden kynnykselle, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy
Laadukkaiden filosofis-tieteellisten tekstien verkkainen lukeminen on minulle vähän kuin vuolemista (whittling, carving), ja korvannee kohdallani ulkomaanmatkat, viihteen ja fantasiakirjallisuuden.
#sep #philosophy #filosofia #presentism #aika #time #ontology #metafysiikka #analytic #attention #huomio #actualism #possibilism #logic #psykologia #psychology #space #truth #cognition #science #consciousness #travel #lukeminen #kirjallisuus #vuoleminen
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Who Gets to Speak On Discord, Who Gets Banned, and Why That’s Always Political in Spaces with No Politics Rules
So, a thing I find very interesting about the fragility of the esteem among chronic Discord users is that it’s common for admins and moderators to ban or make fun of people who leave. Essentially, they’re responding to being rejected or not chosen, so they think it’s reasonable to retaliate
A Discord server I am lurking in has a “no politics” rule and is a religious, esoteric, and philosophical server. What I find very funny about this is that politics is:
“Politics is who gets what, when, and how.”
— Harold D. Lasswell, Politics: Who Gets What, When, How (1936)
I find it very funny that the most minimal form of being “not political” in a virtual community is a Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ). I was part of an IRC chaos magick channel when I was a teenager, and I submitted to a zine under my old handle (which is not Rayn) when I was 20. No, I’m not going to reveal the name I wrote under, which was published in chaos magick zines back in the day, because I’ve had a bucket of crazies following me around since 2008, with the insane network of anarchists circa 2020 being the latest instance.
ChanServ was a bot used on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) networks to manage channel operations such as bans, who got voiced, and permissions. Think of it as an early, early moderation bot. In an IRC TAZ, everyone who entered got all the permissions from Chanserv, so anyone could ban, voice, unban, deop, or op anyone else. No one had more power than anyone else, so there was minimal negotiation over channel resources. A TAZ is still an inherently political construct; however, it is a minimal political construct because there is minimal negotiation of resources and an equal, random, and chaotic authority structure. That’s not Discord, though.
Discord inherently has a hierarchical system defined by roles, a TOS, and members are expected to abide by the rules of that server. So, when you say there is a no-politics rule on Discord, you are inherently contradicting yourself because Discord is structurally political in how you, as a moderator, interact with others. How people negotiate conversations and interact with each other to access the resources of your Discord server is inherently political.
Discord’s structure makes any “no-politics” rule itself a political act. Moderators exercise power by granting, restricting, or revoking permissions, and that distribution of power is the very politics the rule tries to avoid. So while the intention is to keep discussions “apolitical,” it creates local Discord politics by determining who gets to speak and who gets silenced (e.g., banned, timed out, kicked, or limited to certain channels). A “no politics” rule shifts political dynamics into moderation decisions rather than eliminating them.
What prompted this was me observing a typical pragmatic versus moral realism argument that you’d see in any philosophy course or forum. I’m an academic and a computational scientist, but I don’t try to shut down any arguments with that, because that’s an explicit fallacy and a dishonest, bad-faith tactic.
Technically, I am a biologist. Yes, I have a biology degree and a biotech degree. I also have philosophy, mathematics, and computer science and engineering degrees under my belt. I have to work with people like this on a daily basis, and I find them insufferable, so the last thing I want to do in my free time after looking at stacks of dumbass papers is argue with people on Reddit or Discord when I could be fucking, getting fucked, or spending time with my husband. But, alas, they have no life. Keep in mind, as a computational biologist that reviews a lot of shit, I get paid to argue. These idiots are arguing on the Internet for free! The reason why Redditors, Reddit moderators, and Discord moderators get shat on so much is that all of their labor is unpaid! People with lives don’t take it that seriously!
On to the convo:
A new person in the community defined morals as: morals = {a, b, c} exhaustively. An established member of that community responded that, for them, morals are either {x, y, z…}, non-exhaustive and polymorphic, or not inherently defined by the tradition itself but supplied externally by the individual. The new person replied, effectively, “According to my definition of a, b, c, that still constitutes a moral framework.” An established member who is also a scientist pushed back as if no definition of morals had been proposed at all, when in actuality they were disagreeing with the scope and applicability of the given definition, not the act of defining itself.
By the way, the symbolic way I’m defining this is ambiguous. You have no clue what anything is; however, it is ontologically defined, and the logic makes sense. That is the problem. An ontological definition was given, so arguing that no definition was proposed—simply because they disagreed with it—is in bad faith. Personally, I am a constructivist, poststructuralist, pragmatist, instrumentalist, and anti-realist, so I don’t care too much about the realism of the ontological propositions and expressions. I am pointing out logical mistakes.
This is especially egregious when individuals rely on their authority in a domain where their degree is not pertinent. A well-known issue with scientists is that their curiosity can outstrip their morality. Essentially, an ethics board composed mostly of scientists without degrees in ethics, law, or philosophy will make poor decisions and saturate the political sphere they occupy with advocates and lobbyists to bend laws to their interests. Therefore, a board with no philosophers is pretty sinister.
Morals and ethics are philosophical problems. To my knowledge, many people who sit on ethics boards that seriously address ethical issues have philosophy, and not just astronomy, degrees. Relevant degrees include psychology, sociology, theology, philosophy, etc. For example, I have a philosophy degree, so I am technically qualified and credentialed by a university to have these discussions. An astronomy degree alone does not make someone qualified to discuss ethics—maybe if they also had a theology degree?
The thing I find really funny about this group is that they avoid dilemmas. Morals and ethics are developed through ethical dilemmas. Their response to any type of dilemma is to exert their local authority and exclude, deny, or shut down conversations.
The difference between science and philosophy is that science is a little less messy and more defined. We can all see something and agree on what we see, right? The difference with philosophical questions and moral dilemmas is that they are relatively open-ended and ambiguous. It’s really amusing to me how those who try to argue philosophy are uncomfortable with indefinite answers that are open to interpretation.
It’s just funny how they tacitly assume that they are the only academics in their field in existence and that their opinion on things is the consensus, especially on metaphysical issues where there is no consensus. No human knows what the right thing to do is all the time. It’s great to know that they have somehow achieved a level of inhuman perfection.
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Who Gets to Speak On Discord, Who Gets Banned, and Why That’s Always Political in Spaces with No Politics Rules
So, a thing I find very interesting about the fragility of the esteem among chronic Discord users is that it’s common for admins and moderators to ban or make fun of people who leave. Essentially, they’re responding to being rejected or not chosen, so they think it’s reasonable to retaliate
A Discord server I am lurking in has a “no politics” rule and is a religious, esoteric, and philosophical server. What I find very funny about this is that politics is:
“Politics is who gets what, when, and how.”
— Harold D. Lasswell, Politics: Who Gets What, When, How (1936)
I find it very funny that the most minimal form of being “not political” in a virtual community is a Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ). I was part of an IRC chaos magick channel when I was a teenager, and I submitted to a zine under my old handle (which is not Rayn) when I was 20. No, I’m not going to reveal the name I wrote under, which was published in chaos magick zines back in the day, because I’ve had a bucket of crazies following me around since 2008, with the insane network of anarchists circa 2020 being the latest instance.
ChanServ was a bot used on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) networks to manage channel operations such as bans, who got voiced, and permissions. Think of it as an early, early moderation bot. In an IRC TAZ, everyone who entered got all the permissions from Chanserv, so anyone could ban, voice, unban, deop, or op anyone else. No one had more power than anyone else, so there was minimal negotiation over channel resources. A TAZ is still an inherently political construct; however, it is a minimal political construct because there is minimal negotiation of resources and an equal, random, and chaotic authority structure. That’s not Discord, though.
Discord inherently has a hierarchical system defined by roles, a TOS, and members are expected to abide by the rules of that server. So, when you say there is a no-politics rule on Discord, you are inherently contradicting yourself because Discord is structurally political in how you, as a moderator, interact with others. How people negotiate conversations and interact with each other to access the resources of your Discord server is inherently political.
Discord’s structure makes any “no-politics” rule itself a political act. Moderators exercise power by granting, restricting, or revoking permissions, and that distribution of power is the very politics the rule tries to avoid. So while the intention is to keep discussions “apolitical,” it creates local Discord politics by determining who gets to speak and who gets silenced (e.g., banned, timed out, kicked, or limited to certain channels). A “no politics” rule shifts political dynamics into moderation decisions rather than eliminating them.
What prompted this was me observing a typical pragmatic versus moral realism argument that you’d see in any philosophy course or forum. I’m an academic and a computational scientist, but I don’t try to shut down any arguments with that, because that’s an explicit fallacy and a dishonest, bad-faith tactic.
Technically, I am a biologist. Yes, I have a biology degree and a biotech degree. I also have philosophy, mathematics, and computer science and engineering degrees under my belt. I have to work with people like this on a daily basis, and I find them insufferable, so the last thing I want to do in my free time after looking at stacks of dumbass papers is argue with people on Reddit or Discord when I could be fucking, getting fucked, or spending time with my husband. But, alas, they have no life. Keep in mind, as a computational biologist that reviews a lot of shit, I get paid to argue. These idiots are arguing on the Internet for free! The reason why Redditors, Reddit moderators, and Discord moderators get shat on so much is that all of their labor is unpaid! People with lives don’t take it that seriously!
On to the convo:
A new person in the community defined morals as: morals = {a, b, c} exhaustively. An established member of that community responded that, for them, morals are either {x, y, z…}, non-exhaustive and polymorphic, or not inherently defined by the tradition itself but supplied externally by the individual. The new person replied, effectively, “According to my definition of a, b, c, that still constitutes a moral framework.” An established member who is also a scientist pushed back as if no definition of morals had been proposed at all, when in actuality they were disagreeing with the scope and applicability of the given definition, not the act of defining itself.
By the way, the symbolic way I’m defining this is ambiguous. You have no clue what anything is; however, it is ontologically defined, and the logic makes sense. That is the problem. An ontological definition was given, so arguing that no definition was proposed—simply because they disagreed with it—is in bad faith. Personally, I am a constructivist, poststructuralist, pragmatist, instrumentalist, and anti-realist, so I don’t care too much about the realism of the ontological propositions and expressions. I am pointing out logical mistakes.
This is especially egregious when individuals rely on their authority in a domain where their degree is not pertinent. A well-known issue with scientists is that their curiosity can outstrip their morality. Essentially, an ethics board composed mostly of scientists without degrees in ethics, law, or philosophy will make poor decisions and saturate the political sphere they occupy with advocates and lobbyists to bend laws to their interests. Therefore, a board with no philosophers is pretty sinister.
Morals and ethics are philosophical problems. To my knowledge, many people who sit on ethics boards that seriously address ethical issues have philosophy, and not just astronomy, degrees. Relevant degrees include psychology, sociology, theology, philosophy, etc. For example, I have a philosophy degree, so I am technically qualified and credentialed by a university to have these discussions. An astronomy degree alone does not make someone qualified to discuss ethics—maybe if they also had a theology degree?
The thing I find really funny about this group is that they avoid dilemmas. Morals and ethics are developed through ethical dilemmas. Their response to any type of dilemma is to exert their local authority and exclude, deny, or shut down conversations.
The difference between science and philosophy is that science is a little less messy and more defined. We can all see something and agree on what we see, right? The difference with philosophical questions and moral dilemmas is that they are relatively open-ended and ambiguous. It’s really amusing to me how those who try to argue philosophy are uncomfortable with indefinite answers that are open to interpretation.
It’s just funny how they tacitly assume that they are the only academics in their field in existence and that their opinion on things is the consensus, especially on metaphysical issues where there is no consensus. No human knows what the right thing to do is all the time. It’s great to know that they have somehow achieved a level of inhuman perfection.
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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 -
Wo das Meer trägt und widerspricht – Über Hyperkomplettheit und die Grenzen ontologischer Kohärenz
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/wo-das-meer-tragt-und-widerspricht#Philosophie #Wissenschaft #Sprache #Erkenntnis #Metapher #Ontologie
Where the Sea Carries and Contradicts – On Hypercompleteness and the Limits of Ontological Coherence
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/where-the-sea-carries-and-contradicts#Philosophy #Science #Language #Knowledge #Metaphor #Ontology
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Vorhin hitzige Debatte zur #Ontologie von #Röntgen- und #Neutronen-Experimenten bei unserem TA1-Treffen.
* „Elastic“ wird in den beiden Communitys unterschiedlich genutzt.
* Wo sind die feinen Unterschiede zwischen Streuung, Beugung und Spektroskopie, und können wir uns darauf einigen?
* Wie breit verzweigend, wie tief muss/sollte/darf die Ontologie sein?
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Vorhin hitzige Debatte zur #Ontologie von #Röntgen- und #Neutronen-Experimenten bei unserem TA1-Treffen.
* „Elastic“ wird in den beiden Communitys unterschiedlich genutzt.
* Wo sind die feinen Unterschiede zwischen Streuung, Beugung und Spektroskopie, und können wir uns darauf einigen?
* Wie breit verzweigend, wie tief muss/sollte/darf die Ontologie sein?
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Vorhin hitzige Debatte zur #Ontologie von #Röntgen- und #Neutronen-Experimenten bei unserem TA1-Treffen.
* „Elastic“ wird in den beiden Communitys unterschiedlich genutzt.
* Wo sind die feinen Unterschiede zwischen Streuung, Beugung und Spektroskopie, und können wir uns darauf einigen?
* Wie breit verzweigend, wie tief muss/sollte/darf die Ontologie sein?
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Vorhin hitzige Debatte zur #Ontologie von #Röntgen- und #Neutronen-Experimenten bei unserem TA1-Treffen.
* „Elastic“ wird in den beiden Communitys unterschiedlich genutzt.
* Wo sind die feinen Unterschiede zwischen Streuung, Beugung und Spektroskopie, und können wir uns darauf einigen?
* Wie breit verzweigend, wie tief muss/sollte/darf die Ontologie sein?
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Casati and Varzi have revised their vanishingly compact SEP-entry on Holes, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holes/
#sep #philosophy #ontology #mereology #objects #olemassaolo #reikä #existence
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I couldn't image but in one week the #TS4NFDI hands on workshop in Hannover will be already over.
I'm looking forward to discuss #ontology #mapping approaches including #SSSOM with @cthoyt , @nichtich and Nick Juty from https://fair-impact.eu/ and @bioschemas in Hannover.
There are still a handful free places. If you want to join us at the @tibhannover feel free to register via: https://www.nfdi4chem.de/event/ts4nfdi-community-hands-on-workshop/
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oncomputer.games presents a live #stream of:
#DragonQuest Monsters for #GameBoy
a DEEP DIVE deeper than my neighborhood pool (5ft) on #Cats #Dogs #Chickens #Cows #AllAnimals and #DeathEthics and #ComputerGame(s) and #Games and also #NonGames; also: #epistemology & #ontology, #sentience, #SuperAdvancedMonkeyBrains
bottom line: this is a #VirtueSignal Shooting out to the Stars for #BenevolentAliens to #ForgiveTheHumanRaceForWhatWeHaveDone
