Chapter 8. Language and ontology

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Chapter 8
Language and ontology

Published online: 7 March 2018

Article outline

8.1Introduction: How real is reality? ^,
8.2Intermezzo I: Nature vs. artifice
8.3On construing a universe: Space, time and being
8.4Tao and the un-construed universe
8.5Intermezzo II: Sense, reference and ‘The World’
- 8.5.1Sense vs. reference
- 8.5.2The domain of reference: The Real World vs. the Universe of Discourse
- 8.5.3Referential intent
8.6The lexicalization of mundane experience
- 8.6.1Preamble
- 8.6.2Nouns
- 8.6.3Verbs
- 8.6.4Adjectives
8.7Some evolutionary correlates of spatio-temporal experience
- 8.7.1Preliminaries
- 8.7.2Experience in a one-dimensional universe of linear time
- 8.7.3Experience in a universe of time plus one spatial dimension: Early stationary organisms
- 8.7.4Motion and the advent of a three-dimensional universe
- 8.7.5Purposive motion and the advent of agency
- 8.7.6From purposive motion to causation and agency
- 8.7.7The ontology of causation
8.8The ontological unity of experience, action and interpersonal behavior
- 8.8.1Preamble
- 8.8.2Causality, agency and information: Norms vs. counter-norms
- 8.8.3Context, behavior and communication
- 8.8.4The outer bounds of information
8.9Closure
Notes
Abbreviations of grammatical terms