0329 The story does not stop there.
Notably, this following two-level interscope does not have a perspective level. A perspective is required to complete a langue, a three-level interscope.
Here is a picture of what I am talking about.
0330 What fills the void of the perspective level?
Before 1989, Lotman has a ready-at-hand perspective level that satisfies any Soviet authority who may be asking.
Who is going to argue with the following?
Certainly not a poorly educated rube with a rubber stamp.
0331 What does this imply?
Those summer schools in Estonia must have been amazing.
On the one hand, international and intellectual “students” are free to play, because the perspective level is missing. Discourse consists of sensible construction, because the missing perspective level is… um… somehow benevolent.
Benevolent?
No rubber-stamper is going to argue with the prior figure.
0332 Marxism is the ideological currency of the USSR before 1989. The value of that currency begins to decline after 1968. But that does not mean… you know… that one can directly deceive the ones who are charged with supervision of intellectual giants like Juri Lotman and his cohorts.
The mantra is “appease, not deceive”.
0333 At the same time, the missing perspective level is benevolent in a complete different fashion.
The gathering scholars study a civilization that converts to Christianity through the charisma of Saints Cyril and Methodius, and other saints (depending on the nation), in the 800s AD. Cyril translates the Bible. The Cyrillic alphabet (the raw material of the written words under investigation) is forged at this time.
0334 Most importantly, these missionaries hail from Byzantium. They grow up on the Greek side of the formerly “Roman Empire”. They are familiar with Aristotle.
In contrast, in the West, familiarity with Aristotle is… um… lost… then regained. In the 600s, Boethius, who intends to translate classical Greek philosophy into Latin, croaks. Aristotle does not get translated into Latin. In the 1200s, the Crusaders bring Greek and Arabic texts from the Levant. Aristotle finally gets translated and Saint Thomas Aquinas “baptizes” Aristotle’s philosophy, amidst controversy.
0335 Differences between Slavic and Western civilizations show up in subtle ways. Hylomorphic structures occupy almost every slot for actuality in the above figures. Westerners would put a single word into each slot. They would not ideate the hylomorphe that expresses Peirce’s category of secondness.
0336 Appease.
Don’t deceive.
Confound.
Don’t confront.
There is a rubber-stamper who needs answers to questions like, “Comrade, does your theory reveal how material arrangements [substantiate] humans conditions2c?”