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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis examines the structural limits of human language as a medium for conveying meaning.In A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, Bry Willis examines the structural limits of human language as a medium for conveying meaning. Against the widespread assumption th…at clearer definitions, better explanations, or more information inevitably improve understanding, this book argues the opposite: as conceptual complexity increases, communicative effectiveness declines.Language performs reliably when anchored to concrete reference - objects, actions, shared environments. But as discourse moves toward abstraction, moral concepts, or subjective experience, shared meaning thins. Precision accumulates. Understanding stalls.Drawing on philosophy of language, epistemology, and cognitive theory, Willis maps where and why linguistic systems break down-not due to ambiguity, but due to misplaced confidence in what language can bear. The book challenges Enlightenment-era assumptions about rational clarity, objectivity, and the idea that meaning can always be stabilised through refinement.This is not a manifesto for silence, nor a call to abandon language altogether. It is a diagnostic work: a cartography of breakdown. It clarifies the boundaries beyond which linguistic expression becomes unreliable, and why alternative modes-gesture, mathematics, art, ritual, or silence-sometimes succeed where words cannot.A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis is written for readers interested in philosophy of language, epistemology, communication, and the limits of rational explanation. It does not offer solutions. It offers a clearer view of the problem-and of the costs of continuing to pretend it has already been solved.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Enlightenment called itself an awakening. Bry Willis argues it was the longest dream in history.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis examines the structural limits of human language as a medium for conveying meaning.In A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, Bry Willis examines the structural limits of human language as a medium for conveying meaning. Against the widespread assumption tha…t clearer definitions, better explanations, or more information inevitably improve understanding, this book argues the opposite: as conceptual complexity increases, communicative effectiveness declines.Language performs reliably when anchored to concrete reference - objects, actions, shared environments. But as discourse moves toward abstraction, moral concepts, or subjective experience, shared meaning thins. Precision accumulates. Understanding stalls.Drawing on philosophy of language, epistemology, and cognitive theory, Willis maps where and why linguistic systems break down-not due to ambiguity, but due to misplaced confidence in what language can bear. The book challenges Enlightenment-era assumptions about rational clarity, objectivity, and the idea that meaning can always be stabilised through refinement.This is not a manifesto for silence, nor a call to abandon language altogether. It is a diagnostic work: a cartography of breakdown. It clarifies the boundaries beyond which linguistic expression becomes unreliable, and why alternative modes-gesture, mathematics, art, ritual, or silence-sometimes succeed where words cannot.A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis is written for readers interested in philosophy of language, epistemology, communication, and the limits of rational explanation. It does not offer solutions. It offers a clearer view of the problem-and of the costs of continuing to pretend it has already been solved. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Editore: Philosophics Press, 2026
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Why do some arguments never resolve? Why do intelligent people talk past one another, armed with the same words but reaching incompatible conclusions?In When Language Fails, philosopher Bry Willis argues that these impasses are not simply the result of poor reasoning or bad faith. They are…structural. Building on his earlier work, A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, Willis contends that certain concepts fail to converge because they arise from different ontological grammars-distinct, historically sedimented frameworks that shape what counts as real, coherent, and meaningful.What appears to be irrationality is often misalignment. What feels like moral failure may be ontological divergence.Moving beneath surface disagreement, When Language Fails explores the limits of translation between conceptual worlds. Drawing on philosophy of language, hermeneutics, and social theory, Willis challenges the assumption that clearer definitions or better arguments will always bridge divides.Some conflicts persist not because we refuse to listen, but because we inhabit different worlds. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis examines the structural limits of human language as a medium for conveying meaning.In A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, Bry Willis examines the structural limits of human language as a medium for conveying meaning. Against the widespread assumption tha…t clearer definitions, better explanations, or more information inevitably improve understanding, this book argues the opposite: as conceptual complexity increases, communicative effectiveness declines.Language performs reliably when anchored to concrete reference - objects, actions, shared environments. But as discourse moves toward abstraction, moral concepts, or subjective experience, shared meaning thins. Precision accumulates. Understanding stalls.Drawing on philosophy of language, epistemology, and cognitive theory, Willis maps where and why linguistic systems break down-not due to ambiguity, but due to misplaced confidence in what language can bear. The book challenges Enlightenment-era assumptions about rational clarity, objectivity, and the idea that meaning can always be stabilised through refinement.This is not a manifesto for silence, nor a call to abandon language altogether. It is a diagnostic work: a cartography of breakdown. It clarifies the boundaries beyond which linguistic expression becomes unreliable, and why alternative modes-gesture, mathematics, art, ritual, or silence-sometimes succeed where words cannot.A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis is written for readers interested in philosophy of language, epistemology, communication, and the limits of rational explanation. It does not offer solutions. It offers a clearer view of the problem-and of the costs of continuing to pretend it has already been solved. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Enlightenment called itself an awakening. Bry Willis argues it was the longest dream in history.In this erudite yet accessible meditation, philosopher Bry Willis traces how the Enlightenment's promise of illumination became the organizing myth of modernity - the belief that light reveal…s, that progress redeems, that reason saves. The Illusion of Light reframes that heritage as both brilliance and blindness: a radiance that made the world visible by erasing its shadows.Drawing on history, philosophy, and cultural critique, Willis guides readers through six "rooms" of reason - from objectivity and democracy to progress, agency, normality, and redemption - showing how each was built on foundations that cannot hold. What emerges is not cynicism but composure: a practice of thinking in the half-light, where clarity and humility coexist.This volume completes the Anti-Enlightenment Project, gathering and reinterpreting the ideas developed across Willis's earlier essays (Objectivity Is Illusion, Rational Ghosts, Temporal Ghosts, Against Agency, The Myth of Homo Normalis, and The Discipline of Dis-Integration). Written for the erudite general reader, The Illusion of Light invites a different kind of lucidity - one that no longer mistakes brightness for truth. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
