Series – Dialectics in Language, Part 2.: American Sign Language and ‘The Eventity Ontology’.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Series –

 

Dialectics

in

Language,

 

Part 2.:

 

American Sign Language

and

 

‘The Eventity Ontology’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Reader,

 

My wife recently called my attention to a text, by Jolanta Lapiak, entitled “Agent and Action: the Origin of Syntax”, in which the author addresses written and spoken sentences like ‘a fly flies’, wherein the often-rigid modern dualism between nouns and verbs – nouns representing “solid substances”, “hard objects”, and verbs representing transient, even flowing “actions” or “events”, albeit involving such “hard objects” – seems to be sublated.

 

 

Many 20^th century thinkers – among them Benjamin Lee Whorf, Alfred North Whitehead, Ernest Fenollosa and Archie Bahm – had delved into such psychohistorical, ‘psycho-artifactual’ linguistic phenomena, some of them even using the term “eventity” to describe such unities of entity and event. 

 

 

This term, “eventity”, must have been independently “coined” in that century at least three times.  Our own Karl Seldon “coined” it, independently of its other ‘coiners’, before he knew of their earlier ‘coinings’.

 

 

Lapiak goes on to address such unities of noun and verb in the ‘gestural parlance’ of American Sign Language [ASL]: “We can easily identify the noun and the verb in this English sentence [M.D.: in the sentence “a fly files.”] as these words are separate in place.  Whereas, in ASL, sometimes a noun and a verb are blended in one [hand-sign in which it] appears that the noun and the verb are indistinguishable.”

 

 

We have also noticed that ancient languages, and surviving tribal languages, are, in their root forms, often less dualistic than modern languages with respect to words for “actions” and/versus words for [their] “[en]actors”. 

 

 

We suspect that the growing importance of, and increasing anxiety regarding, artifact wealth, then, later, about monetary wealth – i.e., regarding property – as humanity moved from nomadic, band and camp hunting and gathering life-ways, to Neolithic, settled village, chiefdom, city-state, and multi-city-state empire life-ways, and with the associated ‘intra-dual’ cleavage of human societies against themselves into conflicting classes, with increasing strife over wealth, poverty, and property, may have given psychohistorical causation to an increasing “hardening” of an ideology of ‘nounism’, with a semi-conscious insistence on implicit near-immutability for noun-words, especially those noun-words that named objects of property-wealth, always actually highly mutable – “subject” to deterioration, spoilage, theft, confiscation, and, e.g., wartime destruction, etc., etc.

 

   

We know that Seldon was influenced, in his development of the _NQ ‘dialectical ideography’, by the “operator” concept, that of mathematical ideograms which function as unities of mathematical operations and mathematical operands, of “functions” and “arguments” – of ‘mathematical nouns’ and ‘mathematical verbs’ .

 

 

In the most essential forms of that _NQ ‘dialectical ideography’, the interaction of two ‘meta-numbers’, as dialectical or «aufheben» operators, need not be mediated by any separate ‘mathematical verb’ symbol, such as ‘´’. 

 

 

The [«aufheben»] actions that two such ‘meta-numbers’ apply to one another, when they interact, can be signified simply by their juxtaposition, because the “mathematical action” for which each stands, and the “mathematical object” for which each stands, are unified and made singular in the defining meaning of each ideogramic, ‘meta-numeralic’ symbol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information regarding these Seldonian insights, and to read and/or download, free of charge, PDFs and/or JPGs of Foundation books, other texts, and images, please see:

 

www.dialectics.info

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For partially pictographical, ‘poster-ized’ visualizations of many of these Seldonian insights – specimens of ‘dialectical art’ – as well as dialectically-illustrated books published by the F.E.D. Press, see:

 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/DialecticsMATH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

¡ENJOY!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regards,

 

 

 

Miguel Detonacciones,

 

Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.];

Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison;

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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