Language philosopher and other things
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Philosophics
This article is less about what philosophy is about and more about why we can't particularly know some things, and why not.
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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 […]
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I discuss the problem of conflating transhumanism and evolution. I am not anti-transhuman or even anti-transsexual, but it's a category error to conflate them. Gotta stay in your lane […]
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LLMs try to have humour, too. I'm not sure how good it is.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/06/14/claudes-commentary/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#humour #philosophy #blog #llms #ai #ChatGPT #Vonnegut #hindenburg #laughter #french #learning
I offer some linguistic clarification on the misogyny implied in the image.
https://substack.com/profile/43480121-bry-willis/note/c-277455068?r=pvxh5&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=masto
Spoiler alert: there is none. Whether this is […]
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Ontological grammar with examples, including Olivia Rodrigo's babydoll, and more
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/ontological-grammar-moral-kinds-and
#philosophy #blog #substack #video #poscast #language #communication #institutions #courts #morality
Ontological grammar is subjacent to active cognition and verbal faculties.
https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/the-grammar-of-ontological-grammar?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=masto&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Many people label those who […]
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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
Today, I look at the grammar of fitness in 'survival of the fittest'.
https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/fit-for-what-over-what-duration?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=masto&showWelcomeOnShare=true
I was thinking about this as I was […]
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Philosophics
I take a look at the gravitational pull of Modernity and the failure of postmodernity and metamodernity.
https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/the-exit-door-is-painted-on-the-wall?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true […]
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