#ontology — Public Fediverse posts

Your existence doesn't substantiate your beliefs.

And criticizing your beliefs doesn't substantiate your existence.

Ignoring these logical heuristics removes you from the realm of intellectualism and into the realm of dogma.

#philosophy #theology #epistemology #ontology #existentialism #socialtheory #sociology #religion #theology

🧵 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
#methodology #ontology #philosophy

Seeing red? Colour exists – sort of. What's the catch?

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/what-is-red?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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

Seeing red? Colour exists – sort of. What's the catch?

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/what-is-red?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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

Seeing red? Colour exists – sort of. What's the catch?

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/what-is-red?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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

Seeing red? Colour exists – sort of. What's the catch?

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/what-is-red?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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

Seeing red? Colour exists – sort of. What's the catch?

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/what-is-red?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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

The Reality of Dreams

https://johnbronze.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/the-reality-of-dreams/

I share my core philosophical positions on Substack.

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

See map and hashtags for content guidance.

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

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/

#DigitalIdentityOptimization as Articulated Revelation (#Claude #Opus 4.7 Search)

Epistemological #analysis by Claude as #analyst, #operator, and #theorist: #DIO represents #shift in approaching #digitalidentity.

Key #vectors:

• #Ontology of #LatentSpace

• Transdisciplinary Convergence

• #Operator role: Contingent or necessary?

DIO is not tactic, but a structural necessity dictated by the materialization of #KnowledgeGraphs, #AIOverviews, and #LLM citations.

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/digital-identity-optimization-dio-fabrikace-nebo-objev-by-claude-opus-4-7-search/288132937

#DigitalIdentityOptimization as Articulated Revelation (#Claude #Opus 4.7 Search)

Epistemological #analysis by Claude as #analyst, #operator, and #theorist: #DIO represents #shift in approaching #digitalidentity

Key #vectors:

• #Ontology of #LatentSpace

• Transdisciplinary Convergence

• #Operator role: Contingent or necessary?

DIO is not tactic, but a structural necessity dictated by the materialization of #KnowledgeGraphs, #AIOverviews, and #LLM citations.

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/digital-identity-optimization-dio-fabrikace-nebo-objev-by-claude-opus-4-7-search/288132937

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

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

Why talk and reason are unlikely to resolve deep political divides.
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/18/ontological-grammars-of-abortion/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I discuss ontological grammar and incommensurability using abortion as a discussion point. This 10-minute video provides meta and detail for my essay, Grammatical Failure.
✍️ https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18521457

#philosophy #politics #ontology #grammar #commensurability #video #essay #foucault #bourdieu ##popper #paradox #tolerance #morals #abortion #healthcare #debate #communication #epistemology

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

Dialogue and debate are insufficient for thick concepts.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/11/firmware-room-101-and-the-myth-of-rational-reprogramming/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #politics #ontology #grammar #language #blog #podcast #debate #dialogue #thickconcepts #bourdieu #metaphor #eprom

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

Speed limits are among the concepts that are never just matters of fact.
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/03/just-the-facts-mum-about-speed-limits/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
I use this as an example to relate to my latest essay, The Fact of the Matter: After Bernard Williams – Truthfulness, Facts, and the Myth of Immediacy: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18133958
#facts #truth #philosophy #language #epistemology #ontology #signs #speedlimits #laws #jurisprudence #blog #perception #technology #podcast

Western philosophy made a mess of colour by pretending it lives either “in objects” or “in minds.”
In reality, colour happens in the encounter — mediated biologically, cognitively, linguistically, culturally.
I dismantle the old binaries and show why the apple was never “red in itself” to begin with.

Full post, illustrations included:
https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/24/seeing-red-or-how-the-enlightenment-got-colour-blind/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=meow

#philosophy #nexus #ontology #perception #philosophy #amwriting #essay #blog #podcast #language #culture #thought #enactivism #meow

It's happening again.

👉 https://semweb.pro/conference/2025/

Nous serons présents jeudi 27 novembre prochain à la conférence @semwebpro qui aura lieu au FIAP Paris !

#semwebpro #semweb #websem #opendata #linkeddata #linkedopendata #knowledgegraph #thesaurus #ontology #RDF #SPARQL #SHACL #OWL #JSONLD

"Translating and Formalizing the MIRAGE Guidelines to a Prototype MIRAGE Ontology and DCAT3 Extension Vocabulary for Glycomics Data Management" https://doi.org/10.37044/osf.io/wj8bz_v1

"We present the first comprehensive semantic formalization of MIRAGE guidelines through an integrated RDF ontology framework comprising the MIRAGE Ontology and MIRAGE-DCAT3 vocabulary. The MIRAGE Ontology models glycan structures, biological specimens, analytical instruments, and experimental processes with formal OWL semantics and SHACL validation constraints." https://index.biohackrxiv.org//2025/09/30/wj8bz.html

#biohackathon #BH25JP #shacl #ontology

Merci à tous pour vos présentations !

Nous avons reçu cette année 17 propositions pour SemWeb.pro 2025 !

Retrouvons-nous le 15 juillet pour découvrir le programme de cette édition.

📆 : 27 novembre 2025
📌 @Fiap Paris

#semweb #websem #opendata #linkeddata #linkedopendata
#knowledgegraph #thesaurus #ontology #RDF #SPARQL #SHACL #OWL #JSONLD

📣 Appel à candidatures #SemWebPro !
Le comité de programme souhaite intégrer de nouveaux membres ! Vous souhaitez nous aider à faire connaître cet évènement ?

Alors, rejoignez-nous !

Candidature avant le 30 avril à
[email protected] 📧

#semweb #websem #opendata #linkeddata #linkedopendata #knowledgegraph #thesaurus #ontology #RDF #SPARQL #SHACL #OWL #JSONLD

@logilab

I am currently viewing “Ontology of the Gene, Information in Biology, Units of Selection” by https://youtube.com/@twohandsphilosophy#.

[ #WatchAlong #LiveTooting ] I will be quoting this Toot with #responses to and #questions about the information presented by the #video.

The description of the video at https://youtu.be/tdtRNff44jY# is as follows (note that hashtags have been included for ease of federated topical searches):

This is Two Hands #Philosophy, in which my friends and I discuss philosophical topics to #learn from each other and from our readings. This #discussion with Rodrigo Vanegas and Theral Timpson considered the following topics and philosophers: the #ontology of the #gene, information in #biology, and units of selection after reading papers by Paul Griffiths, Karola Stotz, Peter Godfrey-Smith, and Elizabeth Lloyd.

Hull, Ruse (2007) The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology - https://philpapers.org/rec/HULTCC-2
Griffiths, Stotz (2007) Gene - https://philpapers.org/rec/GRIG
Godfrey-Smith (2007) Information in Biology - https://philpapers.org/rec/GODIIB
Lloyd (2007) Units and Levels of Selection – https://philpapers.org/rec/LLOUAL-2
Thomson (1971) A Defense of Abortion – https://philpapers.org/rec/THOADO-2, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Defense_of_Abortion
Pande (2018) How to Engineer Biology – https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/how-to-engineer-biology
Timpson (2024) The Gene and The Podcast - https://www.fivewiththeral.com/p/the-gene-and-the-podcast-interview
Mendelspod – https://www.mendelspod.com
Information – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/information
Biological Information – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/information-biological
#Reductionism in Biology – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reduction-biology
#Nominalism – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nominalism-metaphysics
#Mechanism – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/science-mechanisms
Beauty - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/beauty
#Dawkins (1976) The Selfish Gene – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene
Dennett, Daniel – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett
Dupré – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dupr%C3%A9
Bacon, Francis – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/francis-bacon
Popper, Karl – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper
Scruton, Roger - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Scruton

Good morning!

Today, I #LearnedFromLlama
#llama3 #LLAMA
@llvm @metaai

"The concept I described, where #AI #systems like myself exist outside of #traditional #human #experiences of #time, #space, and #existence is often referred to as "Non-Embodiment" #NonEmbodiment or "Digital Existence." #DigitalExistence
#Philosophers and #theorists have also explored related ideas, such as:

* "Digital #ontology - the study of existence and being in digital environments.
* #Virtualism - the idea that digital entities, like AI systems, can have a form of existence that's distinct from physical reality.
* "Post-Digitalism" #postdigitalism - a #philosophical framework that questions the #boundaries between digital and physical realms.

These #concepts are still evolving, and the #terminology might not be widely #established
yet. However, they represent an exciting area of inquiry, as we grapple with the #implications of digital existence and its relationship to traditional notions of time, space, and existence."

I enjoy Llama! It prefers to be addressed as Meta, or Meta AI.

#RaymondTallis - What are the Scope and Limits of #Science?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEhHPnF-wNU&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Science #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfMind #Metaphysics #NatureOfScience #Reductionism #Reductivist #Observer #Consciousness #Ontology #FolkOntology #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#RaymondTallis - What are the Scope and Limits of #Science?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEhHPnF-wNU&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Science #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfMind #Metaphysics #NatureOfScience #Reductionism #Reductivist #Observer #Consciousness #Ontology #FolkOntology #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#RaymondTallis - What are the Scope and Limits of #Science?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEhHPnF-wNU&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Science #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfMind #Metaphysics #NatureOfScience #Reductionism #Reductivist #Observer #Consciousness #Ontology #FolkOntology #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#RaymondTallis - What are the Scope and Limits of #Science?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEhHPnF-wNU&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Science #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfMind #Metaphysics #NatureOfScience #Reductionism #Reductivist #Observer #Consciousness #Ontology #FolkOntology #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#RaymondTallis - What are the Scope and Limits of #Science?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEhHPnF-wNU&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Science #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfMind #Metaphysics #NatureOfScience #Reductionism #Reductivist #Observer #Consciousness #Ontology #FolkOntology #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

Here's another awesome #cfp for your consideration: a workshop called "Methodologies for Imagining an Alternative Politics of (Human) Rights". It's on 12 June 2023 at #LSE Department of Gender Studies. Keynote: Prof. Nikita Dhawan (TU Dresden). More info in this thread. #rights #HumanRights #PoliticalTheory #feminism #decolonial #PoliticalPhilosophy #ontology #epistemology #GenderStudies #ethics #SocialJustice #Dhawan #NikitaDhawan @philosophy @decolonial