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My Philosophical Position [06/10] Ontological Grammar
Philosopher Bry Willis discusses language and metaphysics and his position on deflationary anti-reification.
Grammar doesn't merely report an independently segmented world. It encourages certain forms of segmentation.
Nouns suggest things. Subjects suggest authors. Predicates suggest owned properties. Temporal grammar encourages persistent bearers moving through a sequence of presents. These structures are useful, but their fluency repeatedly outruns their ontological warrant.
A process becomes a decision. A pattern of conduct becomes a motive. A first-person orientation becomes a self. An…
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