Skovoroda’s Thought: Syntax and Semantics of Worldview Sentences

Abstract

The author of the article presents the functor analysis of communicative sentences of the language of reasoning texts and illustrates the features of its application in the practice of historical and philosophical analysis on the example of syntactic and semantic analyses of Skovorodyn's philosophical thought. Functor, intercultural and empirical analyses, according to the author of the article, are included in the status set of methodological tools of propositional analysis. Propositional analysis, in the form of a system of logical analyses and an integrative methodology for the analysis of communicative sentences as the basic units of communicative reasoning texts and the main elements of communicative frameworks of theories, was invented as a result of the third syntactic revolution in logic, which was initiated by the author of the article. The third syntactic revolution, according to the idea of its initiator, is designed to overcome the shortcomings of the first and second syntactic revolutions in logic. The disadvantage of the first syntactic revolution in logic is the dualism of logical and dialectical categories, which makes dialectical actions energy-consuming and ineffective. The disadvantage of the second syntactic revolution in logic is the absence of a predication operator symbol to denote the procedure for attributing a predicate to an individual and the opacity of the logical syntax of the predicate function and the non-obviousness of the functioning of illogical and logical terms in its structure. The third syntactic revolution in logic proposes organizing the structure of subject and predicate terms by analogy with the structural scheme of a first-order predicate. As a result of the first syntactic revolution in logic, the logic of definitive specifications and genetic analysis were formed, as a result of the second - the logic of propositional functions and functional analysis, as a result of the third - the logic of modified fixations and propositional analysis. The author of the article argues that the functor analysis presented in the article opens up new methodological perspectives for conducting research into historical and philosophical discourse.