Logic-semantic study of the Arabic language: issues of word formation
The same object—the Arabic literary language (ALL)—is constructed as two entirely different objects in theories developed within two types of scientific rationality: the Arabic linguistic tradition (ALT) and European linguistics (EL). The presumption of the possibility of a universal description of language "as such," or, more leniently, language in its authenticity, "as it is," shared by science and philosophy, is incorrect, as evidenced by the fact that the systems of description of ALA in ALT and EL do not coincide, as they employ entirely different tools of rationality, namely, systems of categories and contrasting logics of predication, both procedural and substantial. Each of the theories of these two types can be developed into a coherent discourse after initially defining a minimal segment of the sound substrate of speech and the logic of its accumulation into complex units. Although language is a special subject of description, since it is a product of collective intelligence, the conclusions of the conducted research are general. They consist in the fact that there are no absolute instruments of reason, and therefore no object of research can be taken as such. Any scientific theory must explicate "from scratch" the instruments of rationality it uses, take into account their decisive influence on the construction of the subject of research, and allow for the positing of the same object as an alternative subject of research by means of another rationality. [Completed with the support of the Russian Science Foundation grant No. 22-28-01509].
