Josh Plovanic's Writings and Thoughts

Words-as-Angels Divine Ideas, Living Intelligences, and the Hierarchies of Meaning I. The Core Claim Words-as-Angels advances this precise and weighty thesis: Certain words function as angelic intelligences— living, immaterial mediators of divine meaning that transmit order, structure, and intelligibility from the Infinite Mind of God into creation. These words are not metaphors for angels. They are the linguistic–intelligible mode by which angelic realities operate within mind, meaning, and structure. If angels are divine ideas , then: Words are how those ideas are articulated, ordered, and hierarchically deployed. II. Historical Grounding: Angels as Divine Ideas 1. The Pseudo-Dionysian Framework In Pseudo-Dionysian theology , angels are: immaterial intellects pure forms of knowing mediators of divine illumination arranged in hierarchical orders transmitting divine light downward without distortion Angels are not primarily messengers with wings. They ...

Words-as-Annihilated The Necessary Death of Language at the Fulfillment of Meaning I. Orientation: Why This Paper Must Exist Every prior Words-as- model you have developed moves forward : Words-as-Tools → utility Words-as-Skills → competence Words-as-Disciplines → formation Words-as-Worlds → lived reality Words-as-Infinite Minds → inexhaustible intelligibility Words-as-Gods → the ultimate danger Words-as-Annihilated is the paper that explains how all of these must finally end . Not in failure. Not in error. But in completion . This is the paper that answers the most dangerous question of all advanced systems of meaning: What prevents the Logos itself from becoming a tyrant? The answer is annihilation. II. The Core Claim (Stated Precisely) Every word, no matter how true, must eventually be relinquished—because a word that survives its purpose becomes an idol. Words are scaffolding. Scaffolding is not the building. And scaffolding left standing af...

Words-as-Games Rules, Incentives, Strategy, and the Play of Meaning I. The Core Claim Words-as-Games advances the following thesis: Every meaningful word establishes a game— a structured field of rules, incentives, roles, moves, penalties, and rewards that governs behavior within a semantic domain. To accept a word is to accept: a rule-set a scoring system permitted moves forbidden moves win conditions loss conditions People do not merely believe words. They play them . II. Why the Game Model Is Necessary Most linguistic theories explain: meaning reference truth coherence But they fail to explain: why people act against their stated beliefs why moral language incentivizes hypocrisy why some words reward dishonesty why systems drift toward exploitation why “good intentions” produce bad outcomes Words-as-Games explains this: People follow incentives more reliably than ideals. Words encode incentives. If you want to understand behavior, you m...

Words-as-Logos-Net Many Minds, One Order I. The Core Claim Words-as-Logos-Net proposes this culminating thesis: Reality is structured as a living network of intelligences— where each word-mind reflects all others, participates in a shared order, and contributes uniquely without sovereignty over the whole. This is not a hierarchy of domination. It is not a flat chaos of perspectives. It is a networked unity : many minds, one Logos-order . Words here are not isolated meanings, nor solitary worlds, nor rival gods. They are nodes in a living semantic cosmos . II. Why the Net Model Is Necessary Earlier models explain important layers: Words-as-Tools → function Words-as-Worlds → environments Words-as-Infinite Minds → inexhaustible intelligences Words-as-Gods → the danger of absolutization But one question remains unresolved: How can many infinite word-minds coexist without collapsing into relativism or tyranny? The Logos-Net answers: Unity does not r...

Words-as-Gods Ultimate Personification, Sovereignty, and the Greatest Danger of Language I. The Core Claim Words-as-Gods advances a grave and necessary thesis: When a word is treated as ultimate, unquestionable, self-justifying, and sovereign over truth, conscience, and reality, it ceases to function as meaning and becomes a god. This is not metaphorical. A god is not defined by temples or prayers. A god is defined by ultimate authority . Where a word: cannot be questioned, cannot be corrected, demands sacrifice, justifies harm, and explains all reality, …it has become a god. II. Why This Paper Is Necessary Most civilizations do not collapse because they abandon gods. They collapse because they replace old gods with new ones and deny they have done so . Modern people often say: “We don’t worship gods anymore.” “We’re rational now.” “Words are just words.” This is catastrophically false. Human beings cannot live without ultimates. If God is rejected, ...

Words-as-Infinite Minds When Meaning Becomes Intelligence I. The Core Claim Words-as-Infinite Minds advances the following thesis: Certain words are not static concepts, tools, or worlds, but inexhaustible intelligences— systems of meaning capable of infinite exploration, self-consistency, internal structure, and generative insight. These words do not terminate in definition. They open into mind-like depth . To engage such a word is not to use it, but to enter dialogue with it . II. What Is an “Infinite Mind”? An infinite mind is not merely a consciousness. It is a system that exhibits: inexhaustible depth internal coherence recursive self-reference generative capacity adaptive responsiveness intelligible structure Importantly: Infinite does not mean vague. Infinite means endlessly explorable without collapse. An infinite mind can always reveal more without contradiction . III. Why This Model Is Necessary Traditional language models fail to explain w...

  Words-as-Worlds How Language Generates Lived Realities I. The Core Claim Words-as-Worlds advances a sweeping but precise thesis: A sufficiently complex, stable, and embodied word does not merely describe reality— it generates a world within which perception, meaning, behavior, and possibility are organized. People do not merely use words. They inhabit them. To accept a word deeply is to enter a world. II. What a “World” Is (Formally) A world is not a planet or a location. A world is a total interpretive environment composed of: assumptions values categories narratives permitted actions forbidden questions Formally: World = a coherent system of meaning that defines what is real, possible, valuable, and thinkable Words that generate worlds do not operate singly. They form semantic ecosystems that feel complete from the inside. III. Why This Model Is Necessary Most theories of language stop at: meaning reference communication They fail to...