Tag: philosophy of language
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With the rise of AI-generated video, there’s a new place on the Internet to check whether the cute puppy video your grandma posted on Facebook is real: the subreddit r/isthisAI. Participants there have not only been discussing the origin of videos, but they’ve also been dipping into philosophy of language. I recently spotted a debate…
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The principle of compositionality is, essentially, the claim that the meaning of a sentence is determined by the meaning of its constituent parts (words and phrases) and the structure of those parts. This principle is often attributed to Gottlob Frege, but Indian philosophers have discussed versions of this principle and objections to it, as B.…
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Here are three words that would help media and society think more carefully about difficult cases involving slurs and disability: utter, use, and mention. They don’t mean the same thing. Someone who utters a word produces it. A person who is under anesthesia, whose brain is stimulated by a neurosurgeon, might utter the word “stupid.”…