I’d like to talk about what kinds of thing are incommunicable in language and what that really means. I don’t have it all in one beautiful system, but I’m looking forward to being mortified by how wrong this post sounds when I come up with such a system. One thing I want to setup isContinue reading “What Kinds of Things Are Incommunicable in Language?”
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Too Big to Be True
I’ve been thinking a lot about what the problems around information production and dissemination are in contemporary times. The go-to example for this is fake news, but it’s a bad example. Fake news is a real problem that has real effects, but most fake news is written in such a way that a discerning readerContinue reading “Too Big to Be True”
Conspicuous Communication
The shorthand for the meaning of an utterance is communicative intent in the form of new information or a desired reaction in the interlocutor. To see why a deeper notion of communicative intent is needed, let us consider Conspicuous Communication, when communication-like rituals take place in order to have such experiences “on record” rather thanContinue reading “Conspicuous Communication”
