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NATURAL LANGUAGES
In "NATURAL MODEL" we asserted that the instinctive attitude
taking the transcendental illusion for reality, known as
"common sense", guided original humans in their struggle for
survival directly as individuals and socially by dint of
natural languages. We shall therefore not be surprised to
find that natural languages express the predominant features
of the transcendental "reality".
ASSIGNEMENT EXPRESSION
We have seen in the Natural Model that the transcendental
illusion consists in regressing mental secondary constructs
- the "physical bodies" - to "real objects" of transcendency.
To use the fashionable philosophical term, the transcendental
illusion is tantamount to reification.
Once reified, the transcendental "real object" maintains the
illusory speculative reality independently of its originating
percepts and sense impressions, as a "container" which may,
but does not have to contain them i.e. functions as autonomous
"thing in itself" aka "noumenon".
This noumenal "container" structure is represented by the
linguistic Assignment Expression symbolized by "[E][&][A]",
"E"(entity) standing for "object", "&"(assign symbol) for
"contains" and "A" (attribute(s)) for contained sense
impressions.
The symbolic expression [E][&][A] has the syntactic form
[Subject][copula][Property], e.g. "my-car is green", or
"my-car has greenness", where the copula "is/has" embodies
the assign symbol "&" and can be implied, like in Semitic
languages or in Russian. It may also have the apparently
recursive form [E][&][e], "e" standing for a more general
entity than "E", e.g. "my car is a vehicle", but it is just
a shortcut for [E][&][all attributes of (e)].
FRAME OF NOUMENAL LOGIC
We have asserted in "Natural Model" that the transcendental
logic posits absolute structures of transcendental "real
objects" related by the reified "deterministic" causality.
Natural languages provide its frame with such constructs
as "if...then", connectives like "and", "or", and, above
all the reifications "truth/falsity" implied by logical
statements, contradicting the inherent fuzziness of the
immanent physical reality.
Details of the transcendental logic exceed by far the present
chapter. They will be elaborated in the chapter "PREDICATE
LOGIC". Here we wish only to state that - in their function
of expressing the transcendental illusion - the natural
languages provide a frame of the transcendental, noumenal logic.
POSTFACE
The present chapter describes a few features of natural
languages, which are pertinent to our ontological essay.
It's a purely factual description, in no way attempting to
judge the natural languages, which would be tantamount to
judging gravity.
