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Happy birthday, Ludwig Wittgenstein (b. 4/26/1889)!

“The world is all that is the case.”

#UnofficialDiaryDates #Wittgenstein

Warum es das Butterbrot ist, das den Menschen ausmacht

Ich glaube, es gibt eine zentrale Fähigkeit, die uns sowohl vom Tier, als auch von der KI unterscheidet. Mehr noch: Diese Fähigkeit ist tief in unserem Alltag verwurzelt. Und: Sie hat mit Butterbroten zu tun. Ich habe Ihnen dazu, wie jede Woche, ein kleines #Denkwerkzeug bereitgelegt.

https://www.matthiaszehnder.ch/wochenkommentar/das-butterbrot/ ‎

#Menschsein #Philosophie #KünstlicheIntelligenz #KI #Descartes #Wittgenstein #Anthropologie #Digitalisierung #Denkanstoss

Warum es das Butterbrot ist, das den Menschen ausmacht

Ich glaube, es gibt eine zentrale Fähigkeit, die uns sowohl vom Tier, als auch von der KI unterscheidet. Mehr noch: Diese Fähigkeit ist tief in unserem Alltag verwurzelt. Und: Sie hat mit Butterbroten zu tun. Ich habe Ihnen dazu, wie jede Woche, ein kleines #Denkwerkzeug bereitgelegt.

https://www.matthiaszehnder.ch/wochenkommentar/das-butterbrot/ ‎

#Menschsein #Philosophie #KünstlicheIntelligenz #KI #Descartes #Wittgenstein #Anthropologie #Digitalisierung #Denkanstoss

I read the opening chapter of Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day through the lens of A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis and the notion of ontological grammar.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/14/the-butler-did-it-to-himself/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

In a manner of speaking, this chapter is about the construction of the self and personal identity through grammar

#philosophy #literature #language #grammar #aesthetics #beauty #butler #ishiguro #reading #writing #critique #ontology #blog #podcast #wittgenstein #institutions #analysis

Ah, the age-old conundrum: are you a methodical, precise German, or just autistic? 🤔 Apparently, a 15-question quiz with the depth of a kiddie pool will unravel this mystery for you in 2 minutes flat! ⏳ Remember, if you have any deep thoughts, you're basically another #Kant or #Wittgenstein, so pat yourself on the back while ignoring that this whole quiz is as useful as a chocolate teapot. 🍫🍵
https://german.millermanschool.com/ #methodicalthinking #quizhumor #cognitivebias #HackerNews #ngated

Es gibt Gespräche, die man führt und danach das Gefühl hat, gar nicht wirklich anwesend gewesen zu sein. Man hat Worte gesagt, Gedanken geordnet, vielleicht sogar präzise formuliert, und trotzdem ist das Wesentliche irgendwo auf der Strecke geblieben. Nicht aus Nachlässigkeit. Nicht aus Schweigen. Sondern weil zwischen dem, was man ist, und dem, was man von sich übermitteln kann, eine […]

Es gibt Gespräche, die man führt und danach das Gefühl hat, gar nicht wirklich anwesend gewesen zu sein. Man hat Worte gesagt, Gedanken geordnet, vielleicht sogar präzise formuliert, und trotzdem ist das Wesentliche irgendwo auf der Strecke geblieben. Nicht aus Nachlässigkeit. Nicht aus Schweigen. Sondern weil zwischen dem, was man ist, und dem, was man von sich übermitteln kann, eine […]

Es gibt Gespräche, die man führt und danach das Gefühl hat, gar nicht wirklich anwesend gewesen zu sein. Man hat Worte gesagt, Gedanken geordnet, vielleicht sogar präzise formuliert, und trotzdem ist das Wesentliche irgendwo auf der Strecke geblieben. Nicht aus Nachlässigkeit. Nicht aus Schweigen. Sondern weil zwischen dem, was man ist, und dem, was man von sich übermitteln kann, eine […]

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

The #Wittgenstein Centre has announced CPC-CG member Professor Ann Berrington as their first #WICConference2026 keynote speaker, exploring how #education, #family trajectories, and #lifecourse decisions shape #societies and #opportunities over time.

🎓 A must-attend event for #researchers, #policymakers, #students, and anyone interested in the future of #demography and #humancapital.

Find out more: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/news-events/conferences/demography-and-human-capital

#newissue

Che cosa esprime il #silenzio? Nella letteratura, nelle pratiche religiose, nell’esperienza estetica e in molti altri ambiti, il silenzio assume forme e significati diversi. Il nuovo numero tematico di #Lebenswelt esplora l’assenza di suono da una prospettiva fenomenologica e in differenti contesti, attingendo al lavoro di #Wittgenstein e #Nietzsche come di #Deleuze e #Guattari

⬇️ Disponibile in #openaccess: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/Lebenswelt/issue/view/2765?mtm_campaign=mastodon

#filosofia #fenomenologia
@cultura

Quantum mechanics may not be strange at all. What fails is a childhood heuristic we quietly promoted to metaphysics.

👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/25/the-expiration-date-of-object-permanence/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

Schrödinger’s cat was a reductio. We turned it into an explanation.

This is not a new interpretation of quantum mechanics. The essay argues that much of 'quantum weirdness'' is heuristic overreach, not metaphysical scandal.

#PhilosophyOfLanguage #QuantumMechanics #Wittgenstein #Essay #Physics #PhilosophyOfScience #Philosophy #Blog #Podcast

I keep discovering that deflationary philosophy attracts mystics like moths to a freshly cleared void, so I wrote about it.
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/24/why-deflationary-philosophy-keeps-attracting-mystics/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
It's odd, because the entire point is to remove the furniture, not consecrate the space.
#philosophy #psychology #mysticism #moths #scepticism #language #deflation #maps #terrain #reality #perception #blog #podcast #Wittgenstein #silence

Berleburger Weinkaufsbriefe lesen lernen mit Transkribus

https://www.compgen.de/2026/01/berleburger-weinkaufsbriefe-lesen-lernen-mit-transkribus/

In which Stewart tackles the Far Right's hypocrisy over Paedophiles ("Brown = Bad" "White = Free Speech!")

https://www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-lee-duck-rabbit-wittgenstein-ice-elon-musk-trump-greenland

#StewartLee #ElonMusk #Musk #Wittgenstein #Epstein #ClanOfPaedophiles #GroomingGangs #ICE #Trump #Greenland

23/25 🧵 Wittgenstein would say: "The limits of my train schedule are the limits of my world." If the train from Frankfurt (Oder) is on time, the logic of the end is preserved. We don't need a moral compass when we have a synchronized watch and a Russian accent. #Wittgenstein #Timekeeping

I discuss A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Insufficiency – From Ancient Greece through the 20th Century.

👉 https://youtu.be/A-yoDtJ_ICE

#philosophy #language #video #youtube #genealogy #hypothesis #foucault #semantics #pragmatics #communication #power #ideology #structure #plato #aristotle #Wittgenstein #shadows #augustine #Locke #Liebnitz #Nietzsche #Gödel #Saussure #barthes #shannon #cognition #cognitivescience #rationality

I discuss A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Insufficiency – From Ancient Greece through the 20th Century.

👉 https://youtu.be/A-yoDtJ_ICE

#philosophy #language #video #youtube #genealogy #hypothesis #foucault #semantics #pragmatics #communication #power #ideology #structure #plato #aristotle #Wittgenstein #shadows #augustine #Locke #Liebnitz #Nietzsche #Gödel #Saussure #barthes #shannon #cognition #cognitivescience #rationality

I discuss A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Insufficiency – From Ancient Greece through the 20th Century.

👉 https://youtu.be/A-yoDtJ_ICE

#philosophy #language #video #youtube #genealogy #hypothesis #foucault #semantics #pragmatics #communication #power #ideology #structure #plato #aristotle #Wittgenstein #shadows #augustine #Locke #Liebnitz #Nietzsche #Gödel #Saussure #barthes #shannon #cognition #cognitivescience #rationality

I discuss A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Insufficiency – From Ancient Greece through the 20th Century.

👉 https://youtu.be/A-yoDtJ_ICE

#philosophy #language #video #youtube #genealogy #hypothesis #foucault #semantics #pragmatics #communication #power #ideology #structure #plato #aristotle #Wittgenstein #shadows #augustine #Locke #Liebnitz #Nietzsche #Gödel #Saussure #barthes #shannon #cognition #cognitivescience #rationality

I discuss A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Insufficiency – From Ancient Greece through the 20th Century.

👉 https://youtu.be/A-yoDtJ_ICE

#philosophy #language #video #youtube #genealogy #hypothesis #foucault #semantics #pragmatics #communication #power #ideology #structure #plato #aristotle #Wittgenstein #shadows #augustine #Locke #Liebnitz #Nietzsche #Gödel #Saussure #barthes #shannon #cognition #cognitivescience #rationality

The article argues that ethics is personal and never can be shared.

#Ethics #Philosophy #Wittgenstein #Kierkegaard #Sartre
#Claude #AI-generated

https://open.substack.com/pub/plainlyphilosophical/p/on-ethical-solipsism

The article argues that ethics is personal and never can be shared.

#Ethics #Philosophy #Wittgenstein #Kierkegaard #Sartre

https://medium.com/@skoro2308/on-ethical-solipsism-7a542ed752e0

What if the Frege–Geach problem isn’t a problem at all?

Analytic philosophy built a logical puzzle by assuming moral language works like empirical language. My Language Insufficiency Hypothesis says that’s a category error. Moral predicates live in different conceptual terrain entirely.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/17/what-if-the-frege-geach-problem-isnt/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_vampaign=lih

#Philosophy #AnalyticPhilosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage #MetaEthics #Emotivism #Wittgenstein #Metaphysics #Logic #Language #PostEnlightenment #CriticalTheory #Epistemology #Psychology

What if the Frege–Geach problem isn’t a problem at all?

Analytic philosophy built a logical puzzle by assuming moral language works like empirical language. My Language Insufficiency Hypothesis says that’s a category error. Moral predicates live in different conceptual terrain entirely.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/17/what-if-the-frege-geach-problem-isnt/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_vampaign=lih

#Philosophy #AnalyticPhilosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage #MetaEthics #Emotivism #Wittgenstein #Metaphysics #Logic #Language #PostEnlightenment #CriticalTheory #Epistemology #Psychology

What if the Frege–Geach problem isn’t a problem at all?

Analytic philosophy built a logical puzzle by assuming moral language works like empirical language. My Language Insufficiency Hypothesis says that’s a category error. Moral predicates live in different conceptual terrain entirely.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/17/what-if-the-frege-geach-problem-isnt/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_vampaign=lih

#Philosophy #AnalyticPhilosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage #MetaEthics #Emotivism #Wittgenstein #Metaphysics #Logic #Language #PostEnlightenment #CriticalTheory #Epistemology #Psychology

What if the Frege–Geach problem isn’t a problem at all?

Analytic philosophy built a logical puzzle by assuming moral language works like empirical language. My Language Insufficiency Hypothesis says that’s a category error. Moral predicates live in different conceptual terrain entirely.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/17/what-if-the-frege-geach-problem-isnt/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_vampaign=lih

#Philosophy #AnalyticPhilosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage #MetaEthics #Emotivism #Wittgenstein #Metaphysics #Logic #Language #PostEnlightenment #CriticalTheory #Epistemology #Psychology

What if the Frege–Geach problem isn’t a problem at all?

Analytic philosophy built a logical puzzle by assuming moral language works like empirical language. My Language Insufficiency Hypothesis says that’s a category error. Moral predicates live in different conceptual terrain entirely.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/17/what-if-the-frege-geach-problem-isnt/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_vampaign=lih

#Philosophy #AnalyticPhilosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage #MetaEthics #Emotivism #Wittgenstein #Metaphysics #Logic #Language #PostEnlightenment #CriticalTheory #Epistemology #Psychology

New card in the Critical Theory parody set: Language Game

Wittgenstein’s warning still stands: meaning isn’t a thing, it’s a use.
We live in the friction between saying and doing, countering and reframing.

👉 https://www.instagram.com/p/DQi2rvWjucT/

#Philosophy #CriticalTheory #Wittgenstein #Language #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Postmodernism #Constructivism #Philosophics #Epistemology #Meaning #Society #Communication #Instagram #MTG

⚠️ New essay just dropped:

🐝 Language Used To Mean Something

A raw exploration of language, reality, and mental recursion. ADHD, AI, Derrida, Wittgenstein, and a brain full of buzzing words.

Language used to refer. Now it infers. I want it to mean again.

Read here: https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/language-used-to-mean-something

#Philosophy #WritingLife #Neurodivergent #MentalHealth #AIWriting #Wittgenstein #Derrida #InferentialLanguage

Found online

#Socrates #Plato #Aristotle #Aquinas #Descartes #Locke #Kant #Hegel #Schopenhauer #Marx #Nietzsche #Heidegger #Arendt #Adorno #Derrida #Wittgenstein

The work @standardebooks does is nothing short of wonderful.
E.g., https://standardebooks.org/blog/the-book-that-solved-philosophy
Want more? More there: https://standardebooks.org/blog
Highly commendable. ❤️ 📚 📱
#floss #freeculture #freebooks #ebooks #culture #sharing #donate #commons #copyleft #literature #philosophy #essay #history #download #free #libreculture #wittgenstein #bertrandrussell #russell #logic

🔴 **Late Wittgenstein’s money**

_“In particular, I first consider the inflation hypothesis as a derivative of the commodity theory of money and therefore inherently linked to a purely quantitative regime of monetary management. I then argue that, based on the hinge proposition that money is a creature of law, money’s value might instead be grasped and engaged on the basis of its political and qualitative dimensions.”_

Steininger, L.E. (2025) ‘Late Wittgenstein’s money’, Finance and Society, pp. 1–8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/fas.2024.27.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Finance #Society #Monetarism #Wittgenstein #Philosophy #Money #Academia #Academics @finance @philosophy

"Le monde est la totalité des faits, non des choses."

"Les frontières de mon langage sont les frontières de mon monde."

"La mort n’est pas un événement de la vie. On ne vit pas la mort. Si l’on entend par éternité non pas la durée infinie mais l’intemporalité, alors il a la vie éternelle celui qui vit dans le présent."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosophicus.
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Retrouvez la Note contemplative :
https://sites.google.com/view/mardiphilo/bo%C3%AEte-%C3%A0-outils-philosophiques/notes-contemplatives-de-lecture/nc-wittgenstein-tractatus-logico-philosophicus
#Philosophie #Contemplation #Wittgenstein #Tractatus #Logique

110 years ago:

Ludwig #Wittgenstein received the Austro-Hungarian Order of the Red Cross in Jan. 1915.
He had donated 150.000 Crowns. That was 50.000 more than even Baron #Rothschild had contributed.

Strangely, Ludwig Wittgenstein was named last in the decree, after the other six donators. Ludwig was 25 at the time.

More at https://mrp.oeaw.ac.at/pages/show.html?document=MRP-3-0-08-1-19140926-P-0020.xml

#HabsburgerMonarchie #histodon #histodons #history #philosophy #Ideengeschichte

If you're on Tiktok I'm doing a series on the Correspondence Theory of #Truth in #philosophy https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdrQPxaD/

Covered so far: #Aristotle #Aquinas #Wittgenstein #Daston #Heraclitus

What philosopher are you?

https://www.gotoquiz.com/which_philosopher_are_you

#philosophy #philosopher #quine #wittgenstein #sartre #camus

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.

🔴 🎙 On Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’

“Adrian Moore joins Malin Hay to discuss what Wittgenstein hoped to achieve with the only work he published in his lifetime and to consider how much we should trust his assertion that everything it contains is nonsensical.”

https://shows.acast.com/f8abe2f0-7415-4247-bc89-e5f3f6eff6b1/66aa3a8cdcc0b601b37a2176

#LRB #Audio #Podcast #Wittgenstein #Book #Philosophy #Bookstodon @philosophy @bookstodon

Besides Wittgenstein, we also quote linguist John Rupert Firth (1890–1960) with "You shall know a word by the company it keeps!" when introducing the principles of distributional semantics as the foundation for word embeddings and large language models.

J.R. Firth (1957), A synopsis of linguistic theory, Studies in linguistic analysis, Blackwell, Oxford: https://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci2952d/readings/lecture1-firth.pdf

#lecture #llm #nlp #distributionalsemantics @fizise @fiz_karlsruhe @enorouzi @sourisnumerique @shufan #wittgenstein

In lecture 05 of our #ise2024 lecture series, we are introducing the concept of distributed semantics and are referring (amongst others) to Ludwig Wittgenstein and his approach to the philosophy of language, and combine it with the idea of word vectors and embeddings.

lecture slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WcVlkcUr33u5JmFcadkwtePpXJrv03n2/view?usp=sharing

#wittgenstein #nlp #wordembeddings #distributionalsemantics #lecture @fiz_karlsruhe @fizise @enorouzi @shufan @sourisnumerique #aiart #generativeai

La philosophie est-elle une énigme ? #Philosophie #MardiCestPhilosophie #Énigme #Apocalypse #Révélation #Nietzsche #Zarathoustra #Wittgenstein #Jaspers #Sphinx #Œdipe

http://mardiphilo.fr/2024/06/04/la-philosophie-est-elle-une-enigme/

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.

#philosophy of #science @philosophy @science

Richard David Precht befasst sich im vierten Band seiner Geschichte der Philosophie mit der Moderne. Das Werk hat seine Vorzüge, liefert aber kaum neue Erkenntnisse. Eine Rezension

Richard David Precht widmet sich einer der komplexesten Epochen der Geistesgeschichte. Sein Buch wird der Moderne nur bedingt gerecht. Eine Rezension (Rezension zu Mache die Welt von Richard David Precht)#Moderne #Philosophie #Precht #Geschichte #Sprachphilosophie #Wittgenstein #Strömung #Paradigma #linguisticturn #Husserl #Heidegger #Whitehead #Bloch #Benjamin #Hartmann #Soziologie #Freud #Kultur #PsychologieHirnforschung
»Mache die Welt«: Nächster Halt: Moderne

Found a neat presentation about the connections between Alan #turing and Ludwig #wittgenstein really interesting read if you are interested in the intercection between #math #logic and #philosopy

https://www.britishwittgensteinsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/documents/lectures/Turing-and-Wittgenstein-on-Logic-and-Mathematics.pdf?ref=hvper.com

A few remarks below: