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Summary
Let us sum up. Any science does not actually describe reality "as it is" without the subject (which is basically impossible), but a mental perception model of this world, as it has developed during a millennial process of man's adaptation to reality. As our experience widens, this model undergoes continuous correction, yet the main principles of this "modeling" reflected in the semantic space are looking stable, and we interpret them as laws of nature. No wonder, without this basis we could neither have oriented ourselves in the world, nor passed our concepts and experience on to the others. Mentality is a link between generations, a link more significant than any sign system, including language. We might have different concepts of reality, and even languages, but the rules for its description are uniform, since the goals and methods are also unique.
We are bounded within the "cocoon" of senses - the markers of our interface with the outside world. Since discrete objects appear on the mental map as a result of its "subjective" construction, we have no reasons to consider reality actually "torn into" objects and states. We somehow remind of those blind men who could not reach an agreement on what the whole elephant looked like, having felt him from different sides. Diverse conditions of our interaction with various sides of the integral world must be causing our concept of reality as a "heap" of single objects. That is an illusion that we are stubbornly and consistently trying to get rid of, having discovered and considered new interactions and relations of everything with every thing in this world.
Thus, the result of applying this technology is an adequate mini-theory that describes a certain class of objects with a selected goal function in the context of a selected scientific paradigm. The object functions are most often referred to as "principles", in terms of natural sciences: principles of "the least action", "natural selection" etc., which disclose the sense of processes studied. Since the laws of conservation are true for the semantic space, it creates the possibility of accurate predictions for any situation. In essence, the humanities can yield just as accurate predictions as the natural sciences. A concrete example of Semantic Analysis application opportunities in the sphere of humanities is given in Appendix 3, where some aspects of linguistic semiotics and glottochronology are treated from this perspective.
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