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It's fun to see how some technical terms creep into social sciences and philosophy, and eventually into the wild. Coming from a technical background, I never f

by smokel 4y ago

It's fun to see how some technical terms creep into social sciences and philosophy, and eventually into the wild. Coming from a technical background, I never fully understood what is meant by "object oriented ontology". Another nice example is stretching the concept of "open source" to include the wildest ideas.

marcosdumay 4y ago
(From Wikipedia:) > Object-oriented ontology maintains that objects exist independently (as Kantian noumena) of human perception and are not ontologically exhausted by their relations with humans or other objects. So, basically, it's your default assumption that the world exists independently of somebody being there to see it. Looks like the clickbaity name is there as a prank, because it's a revolt against some newer philosophy that can't settle on the old "if a tree falls on the forest and nobody is around, does it make a sound?" But I did never hear about this before, so I may have understood things wrong.