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SEMANTIC ANALYSIS: METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS

The Subject of Subjective Reality

 

There is always the subject of evolution recognized in Semantic Analysis. It is supposed to generate different object realities as stages of the evolutionary process as well as defines subjective realities.

 

The subject of evolution gives rise to different subject realities and appears in them as the creativity of the corresponding ego-subject within the qualitative restrictions of the given subjectness.

 

Quantitative changes in the context of any quality can only be determined in a mental space of a given measure  and the point of reference - the frame of coordinates. Every frame of reference is to be defined as an "outlook" of the subject on subject reality from its local point. Different frames of reference correspond to different types of subjective reality.

 

Transition from one type of subjective reality to another is related to the transformation of coordinate frame. All frames of reference reduced to one another in a certain class of transformations correspond to equivalent types of subjective reality that constitute subjectness. The rules for this transition are also objective: they reflect quantitative transformations within a given subjective reality, and they are determined by (as it will be further demonstrated) the way of its representation (description or modeling).

 

A concept of independence of the source of subjective reality can be developed either through initial, objective inner principles of this reality structuring or attributed to the initial existence of the outside objective reality. Let us expand more on this point.

 

Firstly, subjective reality is that kind of specific reality that is immediately experienced and structured by the subject according to the objective principles, independent of him and generated by the "outside" evolutionary process. That determines the objective component of any subjective reality.

 

Secondly. Objectivity issues from the outside conditions that define a reference frame of the subject , and in this sense, it objectively defines his subjective reality (as a view on subject reality from the locality of a specific subject).

 

The subject bound to these conditions is a specific subjectivity. Thus, "experience" of the subject world under different conditions brings about subjective realities as different and equivalent reference frames, the structuring principles thereof being universal. This causes the objective   (universal for all) component of any subjective reality. Therefore, we treat the principles of "objectivization" of the subjective world as initially assigned in the way of structuring the sensory part of the mind, due to which the mind constructs the outside object world. Semantic Analysis thus reduces the "outside object world" to the primary tangible basic sensations and objective principles of this construction.

 

A stream of sensations experienced by the subject is divided into the ones immediately governed by his will and the ones not immediately tied to his will. Significant factors bringing about the stable links in different classes of sensations are interpreted as objects, and correlated in terms of classical science with objective laws (principles) of the outside object world that is independent of the subject. Interpreted this way, the subject always appears as "the outside one" as related to any object, even one's own body and psyche.

 

That is why the subject of subjective reality in classical science always remains "beyond the limit" of both his sensations and the object world. Otherwise, he is reduced to the mechanic definition of the system of coordinates (as psychical, biological and social determination). The very principles of objective reality in classical science are the effect of the absolute will of a demiurge (subject of evolution), while a specific subject is reduced to a passive observer in a definite reference frame.

 

In Semantic Analysis a specific subject appears as a specific position of the evolution subject. Subjectness being defined through evolution, it can be intellectually reduced in the context of the studied properties correlated with the requirement for this study. In this case we should speak of mentality, not subjectness.

 

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