The Ontological basis of Grammar
Apr 24, 2022 10:13:21 GMT -8
Post by The Ninevite on Apr 24, 2022 10:13:21 GMT -8
Ontology is what it sounds like when you sound it out. Anterior to fully defining his terms, the logician preparing to enter a debate forms a grammatically ontological sentence, crafted specifically to be used in communication to direct the conversation "onward towards a logical resolution of a paradox, conundrum, or misunderstanding founded in language". Unfortunately, it cannot always be determined that a sentence is ontological by its structural word order. For a sentence to be ontologically correct, it first has to be foundationally true. Foundationally in this context means that it's true on the metered globe, the foundation in Geometry or in the logic of Aristotle is the same thing as the Genesis firmament of Noah and Moses. To illustrate, it would be impossible to locate and find a missing person who was in fact being held in an imaginary city.
True ontology, using the word as it was used in foundational definitions, requires us to accept the Tower of Bable story at face value, as a factual narrative, and to place faith in its antecedents. The Tower story's historical antecedents include the flood, the fall, creation, the prophecy of the ark, and tales of other people found in the Genesis record including their begats. These are the historical antecedents; they are different in kind from ontology's logical antecedents. History is change as time progresses, but God, prophecy, prayer, and even the alter scene are logical antecedents. The difference between a historical and a logical antecedent is basically that a logical fact is intangible, an ideal noun names something or someone that cannot be touched, as an object can.
True ontology, using the word as it was used in foundational definitions, requires us to accept the Tower of Bable story at face value, as a factual narrative, and to place faith in its antecedents. The Tower story's historical antecedents include the flood, the fall, creation, the prophecy of the ark, and tales of other people found in the Genesis record including their begats. These are the historical antecedents; they are different in kind from ontology's logical antecedents. History is change as time progresses, but God, prophecy, prayer, and even the alter scene are logical antecedents. The difference between a historical and a logical antecedent is basically that a logical fact is intangible, an ideal noun names something or someone that cannot be touched, as an object can.