Syntactic subject-copula-predicate order pre-structures how events are conceived as preceding cause and consequence

Evidence

In so far as syntax inaugurates order and creates relations between its elements, it shows philosophy how to proceed. The relation subject– copula–predicate is a sequence, an order of events, a way things are to happen, and to the speaking subject who makes use of it, it gives a direction. The order in which the elements of the proposition occur, both in the logical and chronological sense, indicates what is the precedent and what the consequence. If philosophy has a horizon already constituted by grammar, its task will be to raise this order of preceding cause and succeeding consequence to its higher form of truth, in other words, to its ‘necessity’. Philosophy must show that the difference carved out by the copula between subject and predicate does not represent a simple and random juxtaposition of terms (where the relation is something external and indifferent to the terms), but derives from a partition intrinsic to the subject itself. The coming of the event takes place in the proposition, revealed as the scene of the advent (lieu d’avènement). This is something we could recall from the Greek verb συµα νειν (from which comes συµεηκς, accident, contingency, predicate), meaning at once to follow logically and to happen, to come to pass. Hence the proposition, in which the subject develops its own self-differentiation, is the very place that promises the future. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1165

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s MOC question: grammar as a pre-constituted horizon that fixes causal order is a candidate ‘discursive arrangement’ that could tip plastic receptivity (subject as substance) into explosive agency (subject stating itself). — connects to: Grammar’s copula structure prefigures and directs how philosophy must unfold — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1165
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that the copula’s partition derives from the subject’s own internal difference — a partition intrinsic to the subject — is dense: cause is not external to the terms but emergent from the subject’s self-relation. Resists one-sentence summary.
• DEFINE: Etymology of symbainein linking logical consequence (follow) to temporal happening (come to pass) — accident/contingency/predicate in one root.