Philosophy Of Language

Cratylus: Are Names Arbitrary?

Is the word "cat" purely random, or does the sound itself carry the essence of the animal? We revisit Plato’s…

5 days ago

aUI: The Constructed Language of Space

aUI (the Language of Space) is a constructed language created by Dr. John Weilgart, who claimed it was taught to…

6 days ago

E-Prime: What Happens When We Delete “To Be”?

Uncover the fascinating linguistic constraint of E-Prime (English Prime), a version of English that completely eliminates the verb "to be."…

6 days ago

Ithkuil: The World’s Most Complex Grammar

Explore Ithkuil, a constructed language designed for maximum precision and conciseness, featuring 96 grammatical cases and logic so dense that…

1 week ago

The Liar Paradox: When Language Breaks Logic

"This sentence is false." It is a simple statement that traps logic in an infinite loop: if it's true, it's…

1 week ago

Semantic Satiation: When Words Lose Meaning

Have you ever repeated a word so many times that it started to sound like nonsense? This psychological phenomenon is…

1 week ago

The Forbidden Experiment: Feral Children

From an Egyptian pharaoh to a Holy Roman Emperor, history is dotted with cruel attempts to discover humanity's "natural" language…

2 months ago

The Dictionary’s Phantom: Story of ‘Dord’

What happens when a word that doesn't exist appears in the dictionary? For thirteen years, the non-word 'dord' lived in…

2 months ago

The Hidden ‘Event’ in Every Verb

Have you ever wondered how a simple action can be described with endless detail? The secret lies in a hidden…

2 months ago

The ‘Gavagai’ Problem: How We Map Words to Reality

Imagine a speaker in a new language points to a rabbit and says "gavagai." How do you know if it…

3 months ago

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