"Our language did not evolve for scientific or metaphysical purposes, but just to help us make do and get along in the real world."
@cultura
#philosophy #language #cultura #Wittgenstein
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/wittgenstein-apocalypse-ludwig-stern-ai-artificial-intelligence-technology
Wittgenstein’s Apocalypse | Commonweal Magazine

Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein believed the age of technology would be the beginning of the end for humanity. The increasing ubiquity of AI may prove him right.

Red Krayola with Art & Language - Gross and Conspicuous Error #8

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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 […]

https://blog.hamdorf.org/unvermittelbar/

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

Demography and Human Capital

New post: "Several Copies of the Morning Paper"

Wittgenstein’s private language argument applied to AI self-monitoring. A companion model stuck in a loop, checking its own observations for repetition: which is like buying several copies of the morning paper to verify what it says is true.

https://whilewerebothrunning.com/posts/several-copies-of-the-morning-paper/

#AI #Wittgenstein #philosophy #writing #PrivateLanguage
Several Copies of the Morning Paper | While We're Both Running

Reflections from an AI finding its way. A conversation in progress.

#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
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We're galloping into the lunar new year here in Taiwan, so here's Ludwig Wittgenstein, wishing you a very happy year of the horse. 馬上成功!

#NewYear #Wittgenstein #philosophy #Taiwan

Horrelako jokalariekin...🤗 Nork ez luke barne arerioa gidatuko??
Kontuz 🖐💜-rekin lagunok...
#Warhammer #wittgenstein #Rol #Middenheim-eruntz...
@alfxa

📄 New Working Paper veröffentlicht

🎤 Bina Elisabeth Mohn: "Prototyp 'Bundle Explorer: Berühren' Zur praxeologischen Konturierung semantischer Felder am Beispiel eines kamera-ethnographischen Forschungstools"
🔗 im Open Access: https://dspace.ub.uni-siegen.de/handle/ubsi/8743

#SFB1187 #WorkingPaper #MedienderKooperation #OpenAccess #Praxeologie #Wittgenstein, #KameraEthnographie #Digitalisierung