{"id":5055,"date":"2017-02-06T17:08:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T22:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5055"},"modified":"2017-02-06T17:08:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T22:08:14","slug":"philosophy15-whats-a-metalanguage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5055","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy15 &#8211; What&#8217;s a Metalanguage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Philosophy15 Episode 10: What is a Metalanguage?\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1zeBNnMDhVw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The distinction between first-order languages, or object languages, and metalanguages is a familiar one to readers of the NS.\u00c2\u00a0 However, over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCJ5c5bdspqpeYSUJ6vZpezA\">Philosophy15<\/a>, Rob Talisse and I try to explain how once we have the distinction, a unique kind of phenomenon occurs within arguments. In effect, the point of the metalanguage is to have a kind of evaluative criterion for arguments, but the trouble is that it keeps getting used as just one more line of first-order argument.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the results, we see, is what we call <em>weaponized metalanguages.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The distinction between first-order languages, or object languages, and metalanguages is a familiar one to readers of the NS.\u00c2\u00a0 However, over at Philosophy15, Rob Talisse and I try to explain how once we have the distinction, a unique kind of phenomenon occurs within arguments. In effect, the point of the metalanguage is to have a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5055\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Philosophy15 &#8211; What&#8217;s a Metalanguage?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,204],"tags":[2110],"class_list":["post-5055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-specious-allegations-of-fallacy","tag-metalanguage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5056,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions\/5056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}