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Action schematics and conceptualization of movement in native speakers of literary Arabic

The Arabic literary language (ALL) is described in detail and, thus, constructed by the Arabic linguistic tradition (ALT) as a system of rules and lexical composition. This paper will highlight key points indicating that the consciousness of ALT speakers and ALT authors is constructed on the basis of a schematic of action, not a schematic of substance. "Schematic" is understood in Kant's sense, as a rule that allows for the formation of a concept, i.e., as a kind of mediator between feeling and reason. It will be shown that the schematic of action defines not only the system of categories and a priori principles of judgment, as revealed by the analysis of ALT in ALT, but also what Kant called transcendental aesthetics—that is, principles of sensibility—in ALT speakers. Understanding the schematic of action in its difference from the schematic of substance, it is not difficult to show, using the example of Zeno’s aporias of movement, that the aporia or non-aporiality of the conceptualization of movement is rooted not in movement as such (as is usually claimed), but in the type of schematic that defines meaning both in the aspect of sensory perception and in the aspect of rational thinking.