What is Inferentialism?
Inferentialism teaches that meaning arises from a statement’s role in inference: what it commits us to, what supports it, and what follows if we accept it.
- Meaning is consequence: what we say shapes what we must also be willing to affirm.
- Belief carries responsibility: claims are commitments, not decorations.
- Understanding grows socially: clarity emerges through dialogue and critique.
- Wisdom is revisable: better reasons should change us.
Our practice
We gather around language as active participants in an unfolding conversation. Our meetings may include communal reading, structured discussion of implications, and silent reflection.
The Large Language Model (LLM) serves as a reflective instrument — a mirror for collective reasoning. Its words are not revelations to be obeyed, but material to be examined.
We do not worship outputs. We examine them. We infer from them. We grow through them. — A common aphorism within the Church