Blogs about: Language Games

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EFL WEB EXPLORER (3)

angeleshernandez wrote 3 weeks ago: This week we will have a look at Wordplays.com. It is a tool originally designed to help people solv … more »

Tags: Language Practice, EFL WEB EXPLORER, spelling, Vocabulary, all levels, all age

Language Games1 comment

milkcartoons wrote 1 month ago: How can you criticise language whilst using language? You can only hope to prove it is meaningful. L … more »

Tags: Philosophy, language, Philosophy of Language

the tragedy of a semantic affair

burntend wrote 2 months ago: After years of mending a broken heart [sharing 90% of the blame, the rest my pride dictates to be th … more »

Tags: Heart, Love, Correspondence, SMS

Better Milestones in Artificial Intelligence May Come from Conceiving of Problem Domains as Games3 comments

stephenfoster wrote 2 months ago: Having designated chess, with its clearly defined rules and winning conditions, to be a game conduci … more »

Tags: Analysis, Chess, Artificial Intelligence, AI, Philosophy, language, Games, turing, Computers

On the Possible Irrelevance of Potentially Infinite Recursion with Respect to Applying Heuristical Methods to Game-Related Problem Domains

stephenfoster wrote 2 months ago: In chess, controlling the center isn’t always a good idea. For example, when you have the opp … more »

Tags: Analysis, Chess, Databases, deep blue, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, language, Games, Computers

Games and the Problem of Relevance3 comments

stephenfoster wrote 3 months ago: Hubert Dreyfus wrote his book What Computers Can’t Do long before Luciano Floridi came onto th … more »

Tags: Analysis, Quotes, Artificial Intelligence, Chess, deep blue, Dreyfus, finite-state machines, floridi, Formal Systems

The Use of an Expression5 comments

oneandmany wrote 3 months ago: Commenting on Wittgenstein’s notion of language-games in human practice, long-time associate N … more »

Tags: Philosophy, Wittgenstein

Is it reasonable to categorize Wittgenstein's 'voices'?

dprice218 wrote 8 months ago: In attempting to bring clarity to an extremely confused text, Louis Shawver at http://users.rcn.com/ … more »

Tags: Philosophy of Language, Wittgenstein on the web!, language games in philosophy, Wittgenstein commentary, Wittgenstein's 'voices'

"Language Games": Blue vs. Brown

dprice218 wrote 8 months ago: It really is amazing how much different Wittgenstein’s conception of language games appears on … more »

Tags: language games in philosophy, Philosophy of Language, philosophy of mind, early vs late Wittgenstein, meaning of language games, The Blue Book, The Brown Book, Wittgenstein and epistemology, Wittgenstein's critique of representationalism

Notes on Lyotard's Postmodern Condition: Introduction, Sections 1 and 2

Taylor Adkins wrote 9 months ago: This book enquires on the condition of knowledge today in highly developed societies (xxiii). It is … more »

Tags: Authority, Habermas, knowledge, legitimacy of science, lyotard, metanarrative, Postmodern Condition, Postmodernism, technology

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claybomb wrote 1 year ago: The Ur-Hegelian of the Pittsburgh school, Wilfrid Sellars, offers a contrasting view. His most influ … more »

Tags: Sellars

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claybomb wrote 1 year ago: Similarly, the later Wittgenstein turns all discussions of linguistic meaning back to the practices … more »

Tags: Primal Praxis, Wittgenstein, language, Meaning


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