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Using the parables of the valley, I look at extraction by proximity. I look at how a Modernist lens creates exploitation of neighbours in a critical experiment.
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Assessment: How Cohabitation Becomes Extraction

And now for something completely different… This post begins a series in which Claude evaluates the parable. This allows me the time to write whilst sharing critical philosophical content. I expect…

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February 3, 2026 at 4:01 PM

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Part 2 of a triptych modern parable on a divided culture no longer divided by geography.

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The Tunnel (Or: How Modernity Solves Precisely Nothing)

This is a continuation of a prior narrative. But wait—surely someone will object—what if we just built a tunnel? Remove the barrier! Enable free movement! Let people see both sides! Markets will eq…

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February 2, 2026 at 6:01 AM

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Je m'accuse. I grievously squandered a Saturday, rendering a parable about communication. Claude did the heavy lifting.
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Two Valleys Diverged in a Mountain Range

(Or: What I Learned When I Learned Nothing) Two valleys diverged in a mountain range, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveller, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To w…

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February 1, 2026 at 6:31 AM

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I've long considered the connexion of Law and Morality to be weak and tenuous. After listening to this survival-cannibalism-on-the-high-seas story by Judge Coleridge in 1870.
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#philosophy #psychology #law #morality #blog #video #society #justice #politics #history

Why So Serious?

Yes, I am still focusing on writing my ontology papers, but I still come up for air. Over lunch, I found this: Jonny Thomson showcasing Judge Coleridge: The Duty. Watch it. Video: Philosophy Minis:…

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January 31, 2026 at 5:29 AM

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Accidental ontologist. 🧐 I am madly working on a couple of new ontology books.
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As a follow-up to A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, I noticed that the challenge is deeper than language.
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Ontological Blindness in Modern Moral Science

Announcement: I’ll be taking a break from posting long-form articles for a while to focus on a project I’m developing. Instead, I’ll share progress summary updates. Ontological Bl…

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January 30, 2026 at 6:13 AM

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To tell the truth, I just posted an essay on the truth. Many philosophers have written about Truth over the years, but truth is just a tool.
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#philosophy #truth #essay #blog #podcast #philosophyoflanguage #epistemology #metaphysics #tools #pragmatism

Truth After Deflation: Why ‘Truth’ Refuses to Behave

I’ve long had a problem with Truth – or at least the notion of it. It gets way too much credit for doing niot much at all. For a long time now, philosophers have agreed on something uncomfort…

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January 29, 2026 at 5:50 AM

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I recently shared a post calling out mystics, trying to fill spaces I deflate, but I am self-aware enough that I can be guilty, too.
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#philosophy #language #refusal #metaphysics #ritual #performance #blog #podcast #deflation #maslow #critique #problemssolving

When Deflation Becomes Ritual

I recently shared a post calling out mystics, trying to fill spaces I deflate, but I am self-aware enough that I can be guilty, too. I worry about Maslow’s Law of the Instrument. Deflationary…

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January 28, 2026 at 8:38 AM

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I use AI for early peer review. I use it extensively for research and recommendations. I also use it for alpha and beta reads. I wrote about it.
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Using Generative AI as Early Peer Review

Cheap Adversaries, Outsourced Ego, and Engineered Critique ← ChatGPT is obsessed with subtitles. There is a peculiar anxiety around admitting that one uses generative AI in serious intellectual wor…

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January 27, 2026 at 1:17 PM

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What sorcery is this? 🪄 I often catch myself typing 'anough' for 'enough'.
👉https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/26/enough-anough-and-the-archaeology-of-small-mistakes/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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January 26, 2026 at 5:52 AM

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Quantum mechanics may not be strange at all. What fails is a childhood heuristic we quietly promoted to metaphysics.
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The Expiration Date of Object Permanence

There is a persistent story we tell ourselves about quantum mechanics:* that it reveals reality to be fundamentally strange, paradoxical, or hostile to common sense. Particles in two places at once…

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January 25, 2026 at 6:22 AM

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I keep discovering that deflationary philosophy attracts mystics like moths to a freshly cleared void, so I wrote about it.
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#philosophy #psychology #mysticism #moths #scepticism #language #deflation #maps #terrain #reality #perception #blog #podcast #Wittgenstein

Why Deflationary Philosophy Keeps Attracting Mystics

The struggle is real. There is an odd occupational hazard that comes with writing deflationary philosophy: mystics keep turning up to thank you for your service. This is always mildly bewildering. …

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January 24, 2026 at 8:17 PM

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Moral Psychology: Solution Proposals Having read Jonathan Haidt's Righteous Mind, George Lakoff's Moral Politics and Don't Think of an Elephant, Kurt Grays' Outrage!, and Joshua Greene's Moral Tribes,...

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January 24, 2026 at 8:26 AM

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Reality Happens Once. Facts Happen Many Times. The polysemy of 'facts' introduces category errors. Not all facts are created equal.
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#philosophy #language #ontology #facts #objectivity #cognition #perception #memory #law #evidence #truth #podcast #blog

Reality Happens Once. Facts Happen Many Times.

I want to clarify my recent The Trouble with Facts post. I realise that I was speaking to one non-trivial form of facts, but there is more than one class of facts. We argue about facts as if the wo…

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January 23, 2026 at 7:17 PM

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The trouble with facts is that they cannot be directly observed.
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#philosophy #epistemology #ontology #facts #objectivity #mediation #interpretation #causation #abduction #posthoc #cognitivebias #perception #philosophyoflaw #intent #blog #podcast #science

The Trouble with Facts

One Motor Vehicle What we call facts are not discoveries of an unfiltered world. They are the end-products of mediation. Let’s walk through an example. Image: Autosmash example. An observer arrives…

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January 22, 2026 at 10:04 PM

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Humans are not rational moral agents.
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Humans Are Not Rational Moral Agents #philosophyoflanguage

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January 21, 2026 at 11:33 PM

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Modernity likes to paint Nietzsche as a nutjob responsible for the rise of the Nazis, but he's always just been the messenger.
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January 21, 2026 at 7:20 PM

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I critique top moral psychology and adjacent books. These books do an excellent job of explaining that humans are inherently irrational…
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…then they advise: Be rational. 🧐
#philosophy #philosophy #rationality #morality #politics #blog #podcast #essay #video #books

January 21, 2026 at 5:14 AM

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I had NotebookLM create a podcast summary of a video on moral psychology interventions. Blog post to follow.
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#philosophy #psychology #podcast #morality #communication #language #cognition #reasoning #enlightenment #books #reading #critique #bookreview

January 21, 2026 at 4:28 AM

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I love this AI video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBvb...
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The Tear Drinker - A short Film - An Old Image That Wouldn’t Let Go #foryou #shortfilm #art #love

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January 20, 2026 at 7:19 AM

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I discuss Chapter 4 of 'A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis' in this video, where language fails in law, politics, science, and digital culture.
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#philosophy #language #politics #law #science #semantics #meaning #society #culture #video #blog #communication

Language Insufficiency Hypothesis: Presumption and Horizon

I discuss Chapter 4 of ‘A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis’ in this video clip. Video: Presumption and Horizon In short, I discuss where language fails in law, politics, science, and d…

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January 20, 2026 at 6:40 AM

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We don't think in words or numbers. 🧐
🔗 philosophics.blog/2026/01/19/t...
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#Language#philosophy#cognitivescience#fmri#science#research#words#cognition#chess#fedorenko#blog#podcast#soduko#perception