Tag: Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Précis for an action-oriented theory of language

  What is a word, or message, or utterance? It is a move by an agent (~superorganism) undertaken in order to transform the environmental state, in a desired direction, by means of altering another agent’s information state. This transformation may occur directly, if the targeted slice of environment happens to be that agent whose informational state…

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  May 16, 2022

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  ACiM, action-oriented linguistics, Erving Goffman, generalized reading, language games, linguistics, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Pierre Bourdieu, pragmatism, strategic interaction, Thomas Schelling

• Notes on the Inexact Sciences

  “Philosophers constantly see the method of science before their eyes, and are irresistibly tempted to ask and answer questions in the way science does. This tendency is the real source of metaphysics, and leads the philosopher into complete darkness.”

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  August 30, 2021

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  art, Bruno Latour, Camille Paglia, Christopher Alexander, deception, ethnomethodology, fit, free will, generalized compatibilism, information logistics, Karl Friston, Ken Liberman, Kevin Scharp, literary theory, literature, Ludwig Wittgenstein, meaning, New Criticism, Pfeilstorch, Pierre Bourdieu, predictive processing, psychoanalysis, psychology, resonance, rhetoric, Sarah Perry, stamp collecting, Tal Yarkoni, the inexact sciences

• From measurement to degeneration

  There is no characteristic that is common to everything that we call games… It is a family-likeness term. Think of ball-games alone: some, like tennis, have a complicated system of rules; but there is a game which consists just in throwing the ball as high as one can, or the game which children play of…

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  January 15, 2021

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  C. Thi Nguyen, Campbell's Law, degenerate play, flopping, game studies, gamification, Goodhart's Law, institutional theory, Ludwig Wittgenstein, metrics, opticratics, optics, psychology, signaling, social science, surrogation, systems theory