Mastering Languaging and Extending our Agency in and through the Virtualities of Languaging: The Interplay of Causes and Constraints in Actualising the World

Paul J. Thibault
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Abstract In a process-ontological perspective, I consider some aspects of the ways in which human languaging enables persons to operate on and to actualize and de-actualize the modal potentials of their world. I examine Johanna Seibt’s notion of functional individuals to show how some aspect of the world can be selected and differentiated and thus located in some region of space-time by a particular linguistic (or other) operation. Rather than referring to an already given and present actuality, utterances actualise and situate functional individuals to varying degrees of definiteness, specificity, realness, and so on in occasions of languaging and in texts. Wordings enable and scaffold de-coupled intentional-semantic registration that coordinate selves and the functional individuals that populate their world. With reference to the nominal group and criteria of Thinghood, I consider concrete particulars and functional stuffs in relation to the capacity of our languaging to activate selective aspects of the modal potentials of the processes that we encounter in the world. This requires a process-ontological account of the world on which and in which we act in and through languaging. Languaging functions to sensibilize us to different aspects of the modal potentials that it activates.
掌握语言并通过语言的虚拟性扩展我们的代理:实现世界的原因和约束的相互作用
从过程本体论的角度,我考虑了人类语言使人们能够操作、实现和去实现他们世界的模态潜力的一些方面。我研究了Johanna Seibt关于功能个体的概念,以展示如何通过特定的语言(或其他)操作来选择和区分世界的某些方面,从而将其定位于时空的某些区域。话语不是指一个已经给定和现在的现实,而是在语言场合和文本中以不同程度的确定性、专一性、真实性等来实现和定位功能性个体。措辞支持和支撑去耦合的意图语义注册,以协调自我和填充其世界的功能性个体。参考物性的名义群体和标准,我认为具体的细节和功能性的东西与我们的语言能力有关,以激活我们在世界上遇到的过程的模态潜力的选择方面。这就需要对世界进行过程本体论的解释,我们在这个世界上通过语言行动。语言的功能是使我们对它所激活的模态电位的不同方面敏感。
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