A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis by Bry Willis
A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis examines the structural limits of human language as conceptual complexity increases. While language performs effectively when anchored to concrete reference, its communicative power diminishes as it moves toward abstraction, subjectivity, and experience. At the outer edge of meaning, precision accumulates without comprehension, and explanation yields diminishing returns. Drawing on philosophy of language, cognitive science, and epistemology, Bry Willis argues that linguistic failure is not accidental or remediable through better definitions. It is structural. Language reaches its limits long before the concepts we ask it to carry. Attempts to repair misunderstanding from within language itself often intensify the problem rather than resolve it. Rather than proposing a cure, this book maps the terrain of breakdown: where meaning fractures, where reference collapses, and why faith in expression persists despite repeated failure. A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis offers a framework for understanding not what language cannot say, but what we continue to mistake for having been said.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780971086906 |
| ISBN 10 | 0971086907 |
| Title | A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis |
| Author | Bry Willis |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Philosophics Press |
| Year published | 2026-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 132 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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