Looking at N. J. Enfield’s Book (2022) “Language vs. Reality” (Part 9 of 23)

0914 I now move into Part II.

Some of the terms may already seem familiar.

Part II is the terrain of our current Lebenswelt.  Experimental studies and their analyses involve explicit abstraction.  They require specialized disciplinary languages using speech-alone talk.  So, it seems that the results of scientific inquirycan only be regarded using explicit abstraction.

But, in this examination, I have conjured a surrogate for a corresponding implicit abstraction.  The interscope is a purely relational structure consisting of empty slots.  I put words that appear in Enfield’s text into the slots, then I discuss the implications of my associations.

0915 Here is a picture that started this examination.

Now, I have a spoken word to place in the cloud of implicit abstraction.

0916 A spoken word coalesces within the cloud of implicit abstraction.

Associations from Enfield’s text catch my imagination.  I hope that my fellow inquirers find my associations agreeable.  The implications may bring this examination and Enfield’s book into an odd sort of harmony… a weird sort of coordination… that is the province of postmodern scholasticism.

0917 Here is Enfield’s interscope as it currently manifests in the cloud of implicit abstraction, at the opening to chapter four, titled, “Priming and Overshadowing”.

0918 Since Part II deals with our current Lebenswelt, a few changes have been made.

On the content level, “particular” has been replaced by “spoken”.

Or should I say, “spoken” replaces “particular”?

0919 Also, the term, “frame” replaces “stands for”.  This frees the reference from “physical reality” in the common sense of the term.  The reference for the “particular cloud”, 750kyr ago, is the physical reality of a brutal cold front, the first of the season.  The reference for “the morning star” and “the evening star” and all that claptrap about “combustion”, “regression” and “ingression” is the physical reality of Venus, the wandering star… er… second planet in our solar system.