#wittgenstein — 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

Thanks, "Kindness is contagious" @qurlyjoe
for the link to the latest philosophy doping scandal, https://existentialcomics.com

From Philosohy Bro (re Karl Popper):
https://www.philosophybro.com/archive/karl-poppers-introduction-to-the-logic-of
"Look, there’s been a lot of controversy lately about what is and isn’t “good philosophy” and what we can and can’t say, and opinions on that are like assholes - everyone’s got one, and no one knows what to do about Wittgenstein’s."

#Philosophy #Wittgenstein #KarlPopper #RabbitHoles #OtherBlackHoles.

You can tell #Kuhn is thinking of #Wittgenstein, PI here: "to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life." This is from "Scientific Knowledge as Historical Product," 1977, first essay in The Essential Tension and also in The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn.

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