Knowing Words Is Not Knowing Worlds

Philosophics — Philosophical and Political Ramblings · Dec 8, 2025 · 11m

The source material offers a philosophical critique of the assumption that shared language guarantees mutual comprehension between agents, arguing that fluency creates the illusion, not the reality, of shared experience. It uses the concept of explaining "cold" to non-human entities to illustrate how subjective, biologically-driven concepts mean human experience is a local, mediated phenomenon and not a universal category ready for translation. To formalise this argument, the text introduces the Mediated Encounter Ontology (MEOW) framework, which distinguishes between various layers of…