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Part 2 of a triptych modern parable on a divided culture no longer divided by geography.

⛰️ https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/02/the-tunnel-or-how-modernity-solves-precisely-nothing/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social

#philosophy #culture #modernity […]

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February 2, 2026 at 6:00 AM

Microglyphics

@microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Je m'accuse. I grievously squandered a Saturday, rendering a parable about communication.
⛰️ https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/01/two-valleys-diverged-in-a-mountain-range/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

Claude did the heavy lifting after extensive […]

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February 1, 2026 at 6:26 AM

Microglyphics

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I've long considered the connexion of Law and Morality to be weak and tenuous.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/31/why-so-serious/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

After listening to this survival-cannibalism-on-the-high-seas story by Judge Coleridge in […]

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January 31, 2026 at 5:26 AM

Microglyphics

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Accidental ontologist. 🧐 I am madly working on a couple of new ontology books. As a follow-up to A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, I noticed that the challenge is deeper than language; it's ontological. In my first book on the topic, I focus on the […]

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January 30, 2026 at 6:03 AM

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Slyence

@slyence.mastodo.neoliber.al.ap.brid.gy

I have said it once, I will say it a hundred times more.

The West Wing is poison, destructive twaddle that ignores the reality of power politics and creates a destructive fantasy that will doom liberalism until it is thrown aside.

The only thing that matters in politics is power. The only way […]

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January 29, 2026 at 2:54 PM

Microglyphics

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To tell the truth, I just posted an essay on the truth. Many philosophers have written about Truth over the years, but truth is just a tool, a trivial bookkeeping device […]

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January 29, 2026 at 5:49 AM

Microglyphics

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I recently shared a post calling out mystics, trying to fill spaces I deflate, but I am self-aware enough that I can be guilty, too.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/28/when-deflation-becomes-ritual/?utm_sourcemaston&utm_medium=social

#philosophy #language […]

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January 28, 2026 at 8:37 AM

Microglyphics

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I use AI for early peer review. I use it extensively for research and recommendations. I also use it for alpha and beta reads. I wrote about it.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/27/using-generative-ai-as-early-peer-review/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social […]

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January 27, 2026 at 1:16 PM

Microglyphics

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RE: https://metalhead.club/@GregSadler/115962082873235002

I'm not a fan of the legacy of Aristotelian grammar, especially as filtered through the lens of Aquinas. I'm working on (yet another) manuscript to make my point.

#language #linguistics #logic #writing #book #manuscript #classics […]

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January 26, 2026 at 8:30 PM

Microglyphics

@microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Is it just me and my neurodiverse brain, or does everyone notice minutiae like this – and then feel compelled to blog about it?
👉https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/26/enough-anough-and-the-archaeology-of-small-mistakes/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
What […]

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January 26, 2026 at 5:46 AM

Microglyphics

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Quantum mechanics may not be strange at all. What fails is a childhood heuristic we quietly promoted to metaphysics.

👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/25/the-expiration-date-of-object-permanence/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social

Schrödinger’s cat was […]

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January 25, 2026 at 6:20 AM

Microglyphics

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I keep discovering that deflationary philosophy attracts mystics like moths to a freshly cleared void, so I wrote about it.
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/24/why-deflationary-philosophy-keeps-attracting-mystics/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
It's […]

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January 24, 2026 at 8:16 PM

Microglyphics

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Testing a TikTok send.
https://www.tiktok.com/@microglyphics/video/7598750893021891853?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

January 24, 2026 at 8:26 AM

Microglyphics

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Reality Happens Once. Facts Happen Many Times. After writing about 'The Trouble with Facts' yesterday, I realised that the polysemy of 'facts' introduces category errors. Not all facts are created equal.
👉 […]

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January 23, 2026 at 7:26 PM

Microglyphics

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The trouble with facts is that they cannot be directly observed.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/22/the-trouble-with-facts/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #epistemology #ontology #facts #objectivity #mediation #interpretation #causation […]

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January 22, 2026 at 10:10 PM

Microglyphics

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Humans are not rational moral agents.
https://youtube.com/shorts/RAX5mkTopvw?feature=share
#philosophy #moralphilosophy #reason

January 21, 2026 at 11:43 PM

Microglyphics

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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. Today, his message applies to Trump and America, who Carney out […]

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January 21, 2026 at 7:18 PM

Microglyphics

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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…
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/21/moral-psychology-critique/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

…then they dispense […]

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January 21, 2026 at 5:18 AM

Microglyphics

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I had NotebookLM create a podcast summary of a video. Blog post to follow.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/65d25PLFIEezBiMgyf7lku?si=QEPGl-8ERRWei5uuYV9J5w
#philosophy #psychology #podcast #morality #communication #language #cognition #reasoning #enlightenment #books #reading #critique #bookreview

January 21, 2026 at 4:28 AM

Microglyphics

@microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

I love this short AI video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBvbnb2hSeA

#ai #video #art #crows

January 20, 2026 at 7:25 AM

Microglyphics

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I discuss Chapter 4 of 'A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis' in this video.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/20/language-insufficiency-hypothesis-presumption-and-horizon/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lih

I discuss where language fails in […]

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January 20, 2026 at 6:46 AM

Microglyphics

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We don't think in words (or numbers). 🧐

https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/19/thinking-without-words-and-other-heresies/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

🎧 https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Zrt6gbJU8od7Sr00MYaTx?si=9k-th4RZRiW_XNi5Tla8MA

#language […]

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January 19, 2026 at 5:23 AM

Microglyphics

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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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