Philosophy of Language

"My Truth"

by Peter Gray February 08, 2026 at 13:24 123 comments

Wittgenstein's Toolbox

by Sam26 February 05, 2026 at 14:58 479 comments

Compressed Language versus Mentalese

by Hanover December 01, 2025 at 19:01 62 comments

Hate speech - a rhetorical pickaxe

by Roke September 17, 2025 at 16:37 167 comments

Alien Pranksters

by hypericin August 04, 2025 at 22:46 57 comments

Levels of Language, Layers of Reality, and the Limits of Propositional Logic

by Deep Kumar Trivedi June 20, 2025 at 17:09 0 comments

Language is Metaphorical and Materialistic

by Gnomon November 05, 2024 at 22:32 1 comments

Philosophers in need of Therapy

by Shawn October 03, 2024 at 04:11 59 comments

Why does language befuddle us?

by Shawn September 20, 2024 at 19:26 35 comments

The Liar's Paradox Solution: Words as Mirrors of Understanding (Redo, but fully resolved this time)

by Echogem222 September 02, 2024 at 16:01 14 comments

The 'Contrast Theory of Meaning' - Ernest Gellner's critique of ordinary language philosophy

by cherryorchard August 29, 2024 at 14:03 70 comments

The Linguistic Quantum World

by Noble Dust August 20, 2024 at 18:37 53 comments

Wittgenstein, Cognitive Relativism, and "Nested Forms of Life"

by Count Timothy von Icarus July 20, 2024 at 12:22 388 comments

Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Import on Natural Languages?

by Shawn July 02, 2024 at 11:31 16 comments

How did ‘concern’ semantically shift to mean ‘commercial enterprise ‘?

by scherz0 May 20, 2024 at 22:09 4 comments

The infinite straw person paradox

by Echogem222 April 28, 2024 at 20:28 29 comments

Trying to clarify objects in Wittgenstein's Tractatus

by 013zen March 18, 2024 at 20:17 256 comments

Bugs: When the Rules are Wrong

by Count Timothy von Icarus March 15, 2024 at 02:17 14 comments

Mentalese and Private Language: A Question of Essence?

by Count Timothy von Icarus February 29, 2024 at 18:55 0 comments

How to do nothing with Words.

by NOS4A2 February 10, 2024 at 21:31 132 comments

The Dynamics of Persuasion

by NOS4A2 February 06, 2024 at 17:19 72 comments

A re-definition of {analytic} that seems to overcome ALL objections that anyone can possibly have

by PL Olcott February 04, 2024 at 17:12 160 comments

An example where we can derive an "ought" from an "is"

by Sirius November 22, 2023 at 12:55 101 comments

One term with two SENSES.

by KantDane21 August 29, 2023 at 10:10 19 comments

The Rules of Intelligibly Named Terms

by Judaka August 29, 2023 at 09:53 2 comments

Ye Olde Meaning

by Moliere August 01, 2023 at 00:03 112 comments

Irregular verbs

by javi2541997 July 25, 2023 at 07:09 20 comments

Deductive Logic, Memory, and a new term?

by Josh Alfred July 14, 2023 at 03:27 6 comments

Spectrums (a thought experiment)

by 0 thru 9 July 01, 2023 at 05:22 14 comments

How Does Language Map onto the World?

by Tom Storm June 27, 2023 at 00:10 605 comments

Externalised and Non-Externalised Expression

by Judaka June 21, 2023 at 13:33 4 comments

Vowels and consonants: Plurals and Names in English, Sanskrit and Basque

by javi2541997 May 23, 2023 at 15:43 40 comments

The Post Linguistic Turn

by Wayfarer May 18, 2023 at 00:23 57 comments

Analyticity and Chomskyan Linguistics

by Banno April 25, 2023 at 01:18 238 comments

Does vocabulary have negative connotations?

by javi2541997 April 16, 2023 at 17:11 48 comments

The Being of Meaning

by plaque flag March 26, 2023 at 02:24 100 comments

How can an expression have meaning?

by NOS4A2 February 22, 2023 at 21:25 12 comments

"Sexist language?" A constructive argument against modern changes in vocabulary

by javi2541997 February 22, 2023 at 18:02 78 comments

Linguistic Nihilism

by Agent Smith December 27, 2022 at 16:36 10 comments

Ostensive Definitions

by Agent Smith December 23, 2022 at 18:21 7 comments

Does meaning persist over time?

by Shawn December 22, 2022 at 18:22 58 comments

Is Ordinary Language Philosophy, correct philosophy?

by Shawn December 02, 2022 at 01:52 33 comments

In what sense does Santa Claus exist?

by Shawn December 02, 2022 at 01:19 147 comments

What does "irony" mean?

by T_Clark November 30, 2022 at 17:27 72 comments

Twin Earth conflates meaning and reference.

by hypericin August 27, 2022 at 21:31 39 comments

A Newbie Questions about Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

by Art48 July 08, 2022 at 16:56 432 comments

Metaphors, Emojis, and Heiroglyphics

by igjugarjuk June 11, 2022 at 14:14 19 comments

Ludwig Wittgenstein & The Law of Noncontradiction

by Agent Smith May 14, 2022 at 04:16 25 comments

What is the meaning and scope of existence?

by SpaceDweller April 30, 2022 at 05:21 47 comments

The Meaning of "Woman"

by Paulm12 April 14, 2022 at 08:42 195 comments