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0953 The article before me is published by Sign System Studies<\/em> (volume 45(3\/4), 2017, pages 317-334) by Peeter Torop in the Department of Semiotics at Tartu University, Estonia. This particular volume is dedicated to semiotics and history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0002 Amazingly, this article has no subtitle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps, I may add one: An Inquiry into the Chronotope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0954 At first, I thought that the word, “chronotope”, coined by Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975 AD), was “chronotrope”, where “trope” is a label for a rhetorical trick that belies the complexity of things<\/em>.  Tropes change over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0955 For example, the Latin trope, “ens reale<\/em>“, has been translated as “being that is real”, as well as “mind-independent being”.  Add time, and the parole<\/em> of the chronotrope stays the same, but the matter, the langue,<\/em> shifts.  “Ens reale<\/em>” migrates from what the scholastics pursue in their philosophical discourses<\/em> to what?<\/em>… a being that is mind-independent?<\/em>  Does mind independence (as matter) somehow substantiate a form (that is the elusive goal of philosophical inquiry)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0956 If I use Aristotle’s hylomorphe<\/em> as an exemplar of Peirce’s secondness,<\/em> I can diagram the following “chronotrope”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0957 Peirce’s category of secondness<\/em> consists of two contiguous real elements<\/em>.  For Aristotle’s hylomorphe,<\/em> the real elements are matter<\/em> and form<\/em>.  The contiguity, placed in brackets for proper notation, is [substance] or [substantiates].  Either noun or verb is appropriate, because the contiguity can be construed as either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0958 Does Aristotle’s hylomorphe<\/em> transmogrify, over time, into mind-independence as a real element<\/em> and the term, “ens reale” as another real element?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps, mind-independence<\/em> could work as matter<\/em> that substantiates ens reale<\/em> as form<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, maybe, mind-independence<\/em> could associate to langue<\/em> and ens reale<\/em> could go with parole<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0959 I suppose that tropes can shift (in time) in awkward ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0960 That leaves me with Bakhtin’s term, “chronotope”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In chemistry, the nucleus of an element contains protons and neutrons.  The word, “element”, precisely labels a fixed number of protons in its nucleus<\/em>.  The number of neutrons<\/em> may vary, resulting in different atomic masses<\/em> for two different isotopes of the same element<\/em>.  The word, “isotope” labels a fixed number of protons<\/em> (characterizing the element) and neutrons<\/em> (contributing to the isotopic mass).  Some isotopes have too few or too many neutrons, making the nucleus unstable and subject to radioactive decay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0961 Here is a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0962 By analogy, a “chronotope” is the same element, but its placement in time may vary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is that correct?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0963 Is time neutronic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe the analogy of radioactive decay<\/em> can introduce time into the elemental thing<\/em> by producing a confounding, in the following manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yes, a confounding<\/em> labels one form associated with two matters,<\/em> one originating<\/em> and one entangled<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0964 The problem is that radioactive decay as matter<\/em> cannot resolve into a substantiation of the element as form,<\/em> since it changes the elemental form<\/em> by altering the miox of neutrons and protons in the atom<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, certainly the elemental thing, {protons and neutrons as matter [substantiate] a radioactive isotope}, is subject to decay.  But, does decay itself<\/em> constitute an entangled matter,<\/em> especially when the occasion of radioactive decay<\/em> changes the original element<\/em> into another element plus a radioactive emission?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

0965 In other words, if radioactive decay<\/em> occupies the slot for entangled matter,<\/em> then the original elemental thing<\/em>changes form upon resolution of the confounding<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0966 What a weird analogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, allow me to continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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