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Microglyphics
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Language philosopher and dribs and drabs. http://philosophics.blog
I write speculative fiction under the name Ridley Park and dabble in generative AI with tools like ChatGPT, Claude, ElevenLabs, and Midjourney.
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I evaluate #Justice as a house of cards through the lens of a language insufficiency hypothesis
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#philosophy #philosophie #mtg #cards #blog #choice #agency #responsibility #lih #desert #classification #podcast #semantics #meaning #writing #reading
December 20, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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The Am vs. Have ontological argument is not just an academic exercise. It has repercussions in peer-reviewed articles.

🤔 philosophics.blog/2025/12/19/c...

#philosophy #journals #peerreview #quality #gatekeeping #access #academic #standards #orthodox #control #perspective #blog #podcast
Cold, Grammar, and the Quiet Gatekeeping of Philosophy
A great deal of philosophy begins with the claim that we ought to examine our assumptions. Fewer philosophers seem interested in examining the mechanisms that decide which assumptions are allowed t…
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December 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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It's important to understand what 𝘈 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘏𝘺𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴 is 𝙣𝙤𝙩 talking about.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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A proof for A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis has arrived for my review.
📕 philosophics.blog/2025/12/18/p...
#book #writing #announcement #lih #publishing #blog #review
Proof: Language Insufficiency Hypothesis
It’s finally arrived, and now I have to review it. I’ve published books before. In fact, this one is number nine – cue the Beatles’ White Album. I was nervous as I released my fir…
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December 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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I shared this blog post on my #blog and #LinkedIn. 👽 philosophics.blog/2025/12/18/c...

The #NotebookLM podcast was interesting too: open.spotify.com/episode/5p7K...
#philosophy #language #ontology #perspective #psychology #blog #podcast
Cold, Aliens, and the Grammar That Thinks It Knows Too Much
I shared this post not too long ago. Today, I shared it in a different context, but I feel is interesting – because I feel that many things are interesting, especially around language and communica…
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December 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I've been publishing ancillary material now that my Language Insufficiency Hypothesis is exiting the pipeline it's been in since at least 2018.

👉 philosophics.blog/2025/12/18/f...

#phiplosophy #infographics #blog #podcast #books #lenses #perspectives #ontology #meow #language #mediation
A Family of Lenses: LIH, MEOW, and Disagreement Without Referees
My Language Insufficiency Hypothesis is finished, the cover is designed, and everything is in order for a January 2026 release – save for one administrative detail: the ISBN. I expect this to be re…
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December 18, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Do you ever need a break?
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December 18, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Some miscommunication is due to unshared ontologies, and so we talk past each other…
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…assuming that since we are using the same words in a shared language, we must be communicating. This is wrong
#philosophy #language #speech #communication #talking #blog #podcast
December 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Some disagreements don’t persist because people won’t listen.
They persist because there is no shared ground to converge on.
Essay on moral incommensurability:
📝 philosophics.blog/2025/12/16/e...

#philosophy #metaethics #moraldisagreement #politicalphilosophy #epistemology #blog #essay #podcast
Essay: Disagreement Without Referees
I’ve just published a new preprint on Zenodo: Disagreement Without Referees: Ontological Incommensurability and the Limits of Moral Adjudication 📄 This paper grows out of a frustration that will be…
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December 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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In anticipation of the publication of A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis in January 2026, I have created a Language Insufficiency GPT. 🤖 philosophics.blog/2025/12/15/m...
#Language #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Meaning #Semantics #Polysemy #GPT #AI #Philosophy #LanguageInsufficiency #blog #gpt #podcast
Meet the Language Insufficiency GPT
Language is widely assumed to be stable: words mean what we think they mean. This GPT is built to show where that assumption quietly collapses—especially for concepts like truth, free speech, IQ, a…
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December 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Truth → Rhetoric: Why Access Determines Authority.
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It poses an important question to Realists™.

#Philosophy #MetaEthics #Ethics #MoralRealism #Rhetoric #Ontology #CriticalTheory #Leadership #OrganisationalLife #Normativity #Writing #Truth #Rhetoric
Truth → Rhetoric: Why Access Determines Authority
I do not assume that normative assertions function as descriptive truths. Realism is compelling because it promises that moral disagreement has a fact of the matter beyond persuasion. The argument …
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December 15, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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A critique of The Future of Flourishing: Toward a Dialectical Spiritual Realist Social Ontology
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#philosophy #ontology #essay #debate #language #morality #ethics #spiritual #chritian #perspective #ideology #authority #catholic #metaphysics #podcast #rhetoric #blog
December 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Propensity. Get them while they last. Free on Kindle through 16th of December. By Ridley Park.
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#fiction #book #promotion #reviews #free #kindle #hindleunlimited #scifi #amazon #WritingCommunity #Reading #readingcommunity #dystopian #novel
December 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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My take on Question 3 of the PhilPapers Survey – What is the aim of philosophy?
🧐 youtu.be/pUBsdWotsT0
#philosophy #survey #video #youtube #short #ontology #epistemology #questions #perspectice #responses #answers #stats #cognition #beliefs
Philosophics PhilPapers Survey: Q4 - Aim of Philosophy
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December 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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My take on Question 3 of the PhilPapers Survey – Aesthetic Value – Objective or Subjective?
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December 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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My take on Question 2 of the PhilPapers Survey – Abstract Objects.
🧐 youtu.be/7zoIiLpvVUo
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Philosophics PhilPapers Survey: Q2 - Abstract Objects
YouTube video by Philosophics
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December 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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À priori knowedge – real or not? I share my answer in the first of a series of video clips.
philosophics.blog/2025/12/12/p...
#philosophy #knowledge #kant #survey #response #video #podcast #blog
PhilPapers Survey – À Priori Knowledge
I commenced a new series that shares my philosophical positions from the PhilPapers 2020 survey. Video: Intro and question 1 to the survey. Not a lot to write beyond what the video already says. My…
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December 12, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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"I used to be a musician." A mate corrected me. "You can't un-be a musician. Don't confuse commerce with art." You don't need permission to be an author or an artist. You don't need to 'Be' anything. 🎸
#music #philosophy #psychology #motivation #qotd #guitar #life #writing #authorlife #commerce
December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Could a human articulate the essential meaning of the qualia of cold to a space alien who speaks English? Short answer: no. 👽 philosophics.blog/2025/12/11/w...
Alex O'Connor and Hank Green convince themselves otherwise. Nope.
#philosophy #psychology #qualia #consciousnes #aliens #language
When Aliens Speak English: The False Promise of Linguistic Familiarity
Why shared language creates the illusion – not the reality – of shared experience Human beings routinely assume that if another agent speaks our language, we have achieved genuine mutual understand…
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December 11, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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“I am the one who knocks… politely, but with devastating critique.”
Nano Banana rendered my pic. I can't decide whether it's Foucault or Walter White's Heisenberg. Why not both?
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December 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Visiting old friends via Gemini Nano Banana.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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The Constructivist Lens card is my favourite kind of philosophical troublemaker: a reminder that seeing is never neutral and knowledge is always built on scaffolding.
👉 philosophics.blog/2025/12/09/c...
#Constructivism #Perspective #Epistemology #Philosophy #psychology #Language #metaphor
December 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Tatterhood is a fairytale with mixed messages. I discuss.
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#philosophy #psychology #messages #stories #writing #reading #morals #teaching #learning #goats #roles #norway #agency #society #conformity #prices #blog #podcast #lessons #culture #curiosity #asking #talking
Tatterhood, Makeover Culture, and the Prince Who Earned a Gold Star for Basic Curiosity
I’ve spent more hours than I care to admit rummaging through the Jungian undergrowth of fairy tales – reading Marie-Louise von Franz until my eyes crossed, listening to Clarissa Pinkola Estés weave…
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December 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Having read and listened to There Is No Anti-Memetics Division by QNTM, I share my high-level impression of it.
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#bookreview #books #writing #editing #reviewing #readingcommunity #Novel #audiobooks #audible #paperback #hardcover
There Is No Anti-Memetics Division: An Impression by Ridley Park
YouTube video by Ridley Park
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December 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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📝Moral Universality and Its Discontents
👉 philosophics.blog/2025/12/07/n...
Summary: virtue ethics, deontology, consequentialism & contractualism rely on a stability in moral vocabulary that doesn’t exist 🧐
#philosophy #language #writing #essay #blog #podcast #morality #society #communication
New Paper: Moral Universality and Its Discontents (Zenodo Release)
I’ve just released a new paper, Moral Universality and Its Discontents: A Critical Examination of Normative Ethics’ Conceptual Foundation, which can now be found on Zenodo (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1783…
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December 7, 2025 at 5:44 AM