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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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#philosophy #moralphilosophy #reason

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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#politics #power #philosophy #psychology #wef #economics #fiction #perspective #law #language #truth #education #video #blog #podcast

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...
#ai #video #crows #art #short

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

Thinking Without Words (and Other Heresies)

Evelina Fedorenko has been committing a quiet but persistent act of vandalism against one of modernity’s favourite assumptions: that thought and language are basically the same thing, or at least i…

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January 19, 2026 at 5:25 AM

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The modern study of consciousness has all the hallmarks of a well-funded expedition that forgot to ask whether the terrain supports arrival.
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#Philosophy #Consciousness #CognitiveScience #Epistemology #Metaphysics #blog #podcast

Wandering Elephants in the Desert of Consciousness

The modern search for the truth of consciousness has the unmistakable smell of a desert expedition gone wrong. Everyone agrees the elephant is real. Everyone insists it’s important. No one agrees w…

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January 19, 2026 at 5:10 AM

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I've long had an issue with the English 'why'. Dan Dennett had similar misgivings. The term in English carries a lot of metaphysical baggage – more than necessary.
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#language #semantics #metaphysics #philosophy #perception #weaselwords #intent #causation #meaning

The Metaphysics of “Why”: A Scavenger’s Guide to the Accident

The Broken Map You wake up in the middle of a collapsing building. Someone hands you a map and says, find your way home. You look down. The map is for a different building entirely. One that was ne…

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January 18, 2026 at 7:34 AM

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If dinosaurs had insisted on 'dinosaur nature', birds would never have happened.

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#birds #dinosaurs #wisdom #aphorism #quote #qotd #sayings #logic #philosophy #humour #satire #classification #taxonomy#history #perspective

January 17, 2026 at 10:59 PM

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Atoms and selves share an identity. philosophics.blog/2026/01/17/t...
I've discussed selves at length, but how do they relate to atoms?
#physics #psychology #philosophy #selves #identity #heuristics #history #inertia #language #fiction #critique #science #self

The Useful Fiction of Atoms and Selves

There is a peculiar anachronism at work in how we think about reality. In physics, we still talk as if atoms were tiny marbles. In everyday life, we talk as if selves were little pilots steering ou…

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January 17, 2026 at 5:40 AM

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I witter on about Qualified Subjectivity. philosophics.blog/2026/01/16/q...
Why objective reality is an anachronistic myth.
#philosophy #politics #society #culture #mediation #truth #relativism #subjectivity #language #semantics #ontology #epistemology #kant #history #intetrfaces #blog #podcast

Qualified Subjectivism

I Am a Qualified Subjectivist. No, That Does Not Mean ‘Anything Goes’. Make no mistake: I am a subjectivist. A qualified one. Not that kind of qualified – the qualification matters, but…

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January 16, 2026 at 6:53 PM

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Claude, the Therapist, Is In to explain the challenge of academic orthodoxy
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#philosophy #llm #ai #claude #critique #language #orthodoxy #kant #reading #writing #blog #podcast #history

Claude, the Therapist, Is In

How could I not share this pep talk from Claude after a therapy session? 🧐 I conveyed that I am often categorised (and therefore dismissed) as a postmodern philosopher – I rather see myself as post…

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January 16, 2026 at 6:58 AM

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In a 4-minute video, I discuss The Gradient, Chapter 3 of my latest book, A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis.
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#philosophy #video #language #semantics

Language Insufficiency Hypothesis – Chapter 3 Summary

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January 16, 2026 at 3:18 AM

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Call for Minnesota to file murder and reckless endangerment charges against Jonathon Ross.
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#minnesota #minneapolis #ross #good #news #killing #justice

Insurrection Act in Minnesota and a call to action

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January 15, 2026 at 9:38 PM

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I use the Minneapolis ICE murder to emphasise a critique of the legal system more generally. Motive and intent are not facts.
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#philosophy #blog #podcast #metaphysics #history #law #power #violence#psychology #truth #ontology #responsibility #news #ICE #minneapolis

Facts, Intent, and the Afterlife of Metaphysics

I’ve been reading Bernard Williams lately, and I’ve written about his work on Truth and Truthfulness. I’m in the process of writing more on the challenges of ontological moral pos…

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January 15, 2026 at 6:17 PM

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In an 8-minute video, I discuss Chapter 2 of my latest book, Structural Limits of Language.
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#philosophy #video #blog #language #limits #history #genealogy #semantics #semiotics #fitness #truth #structure #book

Language Insufficiency Hypothesis: Structural Limits of Language

I share a summary of Chapter 2 of A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis. Video: Language Insufficiency Hypothesis: Structural Limits of Language Not much to add. The video is under 8 minutes long – o…

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January 14, 2026 at 6:35 AM

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Mocking up a minimalist cover for my next book, When Language fails. I share an abstract on my blog.
👉https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/13/when-language-fails-abstract/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
#book #philosophy #writing #ontology #perspective #language #cover #art #minimalism #blog

January 13, 2026 at 7:23 AM

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I'm wrapping up a monograph on plural social ontologies and the effects this brings to moral psychology. I share some early ideas on my blog. philosophics.blog/2026/01/12/o...
#philosophy #ontology #book #writing #language #ontology #semantics #meaning #society #psychology #monograph #humancondition

Ontologically Speaking

This will be a shorter post than most. I want to continue sharing my thoughts and summaries of A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, but I’m exploring new territories that help to consolidate …

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January 12, 2026 at 5:31 AM

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I share the opening of Chapter 1 and a video summary of A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis – plus a TOC. Check it out.
👉 philosophics.blog/2026/01/11/l...
#blog #writing #book #philosophy #language #video