Grammar’s subject-predicate form dictates a referential, non-textual interpretive procedure.
Evidence
The grammatical structure of the predicative proposition represents substance as if a passive subject were receiving its predicates from outside. From the perspective of ratiocinative thinking, the proposition reproduces an ontological model, a model which functions as referent for that particular proposition. The reader, by becoming a transparent stand-in for the subject of the statement, expects that the subject has thereby become transparent to its referent, and that the elocutionary dimension of the proposition will volatilize into something else of which it is only the sign and the index. The syntactical structure of the proposition, in so far as it reproduces an ontological order independent of language, necessarily determines for the reader what the exegetical procedure will be: one should look outside the text, for a non-textual meaning. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1232
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Extends the earlier ch127 claim that syntactic subject-copula-predicate order pre-structures how events are conceived causally.
- ADDENDUM: The claim that grammatical structure dictates interpretive procedure is a mechanism-level example paralleling how structure constrains meaning-making in other domains.
Related
- Grammatical subject-predicate form secretly encodes an ontology that directs reading (similarity 0.92)
- Grammar’s copula structure prefigures and directs how philosophy must unfold (similarity 0.81)
- Ordinary grammar’s linear subject-copula-predicate structure blocks genuine speculative thought (similarity 0.80)
- Speculative thought arises inside the proposition rather than through a separate form (similarity 0.79)