{"id":10038,"date":"2026-01-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10038"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:04:13","slug":"looking-at-ekaterina-velmezova-and-kalevi-kulls-article-2017-boris-uspenskij-part-16-of-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10038","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Ekaterina Velmezova and Kalevi Kull&#8217;s Article (2017) &#8220;Boris Uspenskij&#8230;&#8221; (Part 16 of 19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0604 Who am I?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I&nbsp;<em>the one who emerges from (and situates) the languages that I speak?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or am I&nbsp;<em>who I am?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0605 Clearly,&nbsp;<em>the first question<\/em>&nbsp;applies to&nbsp;<em>the narrator responsible for any literary text<sub>2bf<\/sub>,<\/em>&nbsp;also known as &#8220;the author&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Theoretically,&nbsp;<em>the second question<\/em>&nbsp;applies to&nbsp;<em>the reader of any literary text<sub>2af<\/sub>,<\/em>&nbsp;eager to ascertain its meaning<sub>1a<\/sub>, presence<sub>1b<\/sub>&nbsp;and message<sub>1c<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0606 These profound questions<sub>2af<\/sub>&nbsp;stand well within&nbsp;<em>the domain of the TMS,<\/em>&nbsp;yet remain only a Venn diagram away from&#8230; how do I say it?&#8230;&nbsp;<em>languages<sub>2am<\/sub>&nbsp;that cannot be contextualized as science<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, I am talking about languages that use&nbsp;<em>Aristotle&#8217;s metaphysics<\/em>&nbsp;shamelessly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0607 Am I pointing theologians and classical philosophers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is another way to picture the interventional sign-vehicle (SV<sub>i<\/sub>), its sign-object (SO<sub>i<\/sub>), and the entangled specifying sign-vehicle (SV<sub>s<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide43-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide43-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide43-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide43-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>How&nbsp;<em>confounding<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suppose that it is&nbsp;<em>the task of theologians and old-time philosophers<\/em>&nbsp;to savor&nbsp;<em>this type of mess<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0608&nbsp;<em>The confounding of hylomorphe and entanglement<\/em>&nbsp;is a Russian delicacy, the fruit of the fact that there is a uninterrupted (although wildly gyrating) history that starts with Aristotle, passes to the Slavs through the missions of Saints Cyril and Methodius, and has remained, sometimes flourishing and sometimes waning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Soviet academics Juri Lotman and Boris Uspenskij<\/em>&nbsp;re-discover&nbsp;<em>the recipe<\/em>&nbsp;through&nbsp;<em>their excavations of Slavic civilization<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0609 And&nbsp;<em>what<\/em>&nbsp;of the future?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aristotle&#8217;s hylomorphe of {matter [substantiates] form} is an exemplar of Charles Peirce&#8217;s category of secondness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So is {form [entangles] matter}.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0610 So where am I (in Latin:&nbsp;<em>ego<\/em>) in&nbsp;<em>the following loquens interscope?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide44-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide44-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide44-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide44-2-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is&nbsp;<em>a provocative question<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0604 Who am I? Am I&nbsp;the one who emerges from (and situates) the languages that I speak? Or am I&nbsp;who I am? 0605 Clearly,&nbsp;the first question&nbsp;applies to&nbsp;the narrator responsible for any literary text2bf,&nbsp;also known as &#8220;the author&#8221;. 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