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1. What facts do Three Conjectures for Dimension, Synthesis and Reversion show us?
2. How is the time alive in language?
3. The days when I was thinking of Energy Distance Theory
4. Why is boundary necessary in language?
5. Where is the change's power or energy?
6. Why do you think that language has structure?​

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On Structure, ​Symplectic Language Theory. Dialogue 1

On Structure
​Symplectic Language Theory

TANAKA Akio
    
Dialogue 1
On Structure
For HORI Tatsuo, Footprints on the snow, 1946


Why do you think that language has structure?
_We have true-false problem since Greece had logic on language, Crete man tells himself a liar. The situation suggests that if language has structure and we see the structure's whole, there is no more problem in the upper funny but radical story.

Do you mention that language has dimensions in it for preventing the confusion?
_Surely dimension is an important factor of structure. But language is a vast building in which all the logisc and all the feelings are expressible for all the hope of human beings.

Then how the structure is built, do you imagine?
_I ever learned the history of Linguistic Circle of Prague, in which the most important hypothesis is said that language has function. Function is inevitably occurred following after the completion of structure, I think.

Do you say that from the observation of language function is adequately acceptable for structure's surface?
_Yes, I think so.

Then on inner structure of language, what do you think?
_At first, language has meaning. But it was put aside by Prague Linguistic Circle as the hardest problem on language for its ambiguity as MATHESIUS V. gave the famous lecture, Latency of　language phenomena, 1911.  I attracted the theme, language has ambiguity.

Did you go to Prague? 
_No. I only heard on PLC from CHINO Eiichi. He learned linguistics at Prague, from 1958 to 1967. He gave me the basis of linguistics after his returning to Tokyo. I first met him at Tokyo 1969. I learned Russian at that time in the small class. He was young at 37, and I also young too at 21.   

You really respect CHINO.
_I remember him respectfully, but more frequently merrily, for his fantastic conversation to the younger beginner, studying language from various fields, from art to classical languages at the university. 

On language, ambiguity is important?
_Undoubtedly. CHINO gave me the concept of asymmetric dualism of linguistic sign. The paper was written by KARCEVSKIJ Sergej at 1929. Precisely to say, "Du dualisme asymétrique du signe linguistique", Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague 1.

From ambiguity to structure, through what course did you choose?
_I took the road from the minimum unit of meaning that was extracted by WANG Guowei's GUANTANG JILIN, the book was real youth of my life, for which I named <meaning minimum> by reference of JAKOBSON Roman's concept <semantic minimum>. I dearly remember CHINO's warm advice "not to enter such a theme that are firstly treated by WITTGENSTEIN-like person. We are not invited", backing to the railway station from the university, after his lecture on linguistics at early summer twilight. 

<Meaning minimum> is your starting point, I recognized. After that, To where did you go?
_At first, from set theory. I ever learned it mainly from TAKEUCHI Gaishi's papers. Now I yet like his approch to the mathematical object. And I, at that time, also came under the influence of LÉVI-STRAUSS Claude.

That course was productive to you?
_It is a difficult question. For first step of my study, partly yes and mostly no.

Mostly no, for what?
_For me the most important is the relation between <meaning minimum>s. But set theory is not efficient for that direction.

Is relation important?
_Perhaps yes.

Why?
_Back to MATHESIUS's <latency> or KARCEVSKIJ's <asymmetric duality>, there exists relationship between one meaning and another meaning. For me, this relationship is not able to be handled by my set theory's level. But set theory is enough charming for its elemental simplicity.

And where did you go to the next?
_Geometry. It is the most natural and fantastic approach by its freely intuitive methods. 

Intuition is surely familiar. But selection is only done by such reason?
_I have not any other choices at considering my mathematical level then.

Geometry was respondent to your hope?
_Yes, absolutely yes. As people say that geometry is a heimat of mathematics, I really think so.

Geometry is more easily way to approach for you?
_Repeatedly say, I have not any choices at that time. Meeting with geometry, I often wrote various figures containing topological ones, for instance at on the train to the town in which mother is under medical care.

Such drawings can express language's validity?
_Much interesting to express but the themes containing validity of language and so forth are very hard to access.

Why?
_Relationship among language inside is far away beyond my amateurishly imaginary figures.

And after that?
_I came here, at my present mathematical situation as PENROSE Roger said in his book THE ROAD TO REALITY, that mathematics is the most highly investigated way for the study of universe. His confidence to mathematics is put up on my home page of Sekinan Research Field of Language.

Where do you stand now?
_Symplectic geometry.

Why do you stand there?
_Also natural for me. And freely thinkable.

Freely thinkable, what imagine by that?
_Mathematics is radically free. Just like a wind at high lands, far-sighted and transparent.

Mmm. Transparent. 
_Yes,perfectly transparent. In contrast with language. Language is always having ambiguity.

Ambiguous language and transparent mathematics.
_That's all.

Many thanks today.
_It's my pleasure. 


Tokyo
12 March 2009
14 December 2015 Revised
​Sekinan Research Field of Language

Character encloses the time of word

24/07/2014 15:05

Character encloses the time of word. This notion first thought at researching the old Chinese characters assisting the Qing Dynasty's linguists, especially WANG Guowei's life-time collected papers, Guantangjilin. I wrote trial papers between November 2002 and February 2003. From these trials I made a rather self-confident paper, On Time Property Inherent in Characters, in March 2003 at Hakuba, Nagano, where outside were all white by snow. In September this year 2003, the paper based on this paper, Quantum Theory for Language, was shown at the international conference related with literature and history of Silk Road.
Paper’ contents are seen at the below.

References
On Time Property Inherent in Characters

• http://srflnews.blogspot.jp/2014/07/on-time-property-inherent-in-characters.html
• http://srfltheory.weebly.com/on-time-property-inherent-in-characters.html

Quantum Theory for Language

• http://srfltheory.weebly.com/quantum-theory-for-language.html
• http://srflnews.blogspot.jp/2014/07/quantum-theory-for-language-15-january.html

TANAKA Akio

Tokyo
24 July 2014

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Tag: WANG Guowei

Curriculum Vitae

http://srflnote.webnode.com/news/curriculum-vitae1/

Character encloses the time of word

http://srflnote.webnode.com/news/character-encloses-the-time-of-word/

The first paper on Inherent time in word at SRFL

http://srflnote.webnode.com/news/the-first-paper-on-inherent-time-of-word-atsrfl/

The Complete Works of WANG Guowei / 24 May 2012

http://srflnote.webnode.com/news/the-complete-works-of-wang-guowei-24-may-2012/

Quantum Theory for Language / 15 January 2004

http://srflnote.webnode.com/news/quantum-theory-for-language-15-january-2004/

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The first paper on Inherent time in word at SRFL

26/07/2014 10:18

In 2003 I wrote a paper which shows the inherent time in word, titled On Time Property Inherent in Characters.
In those days I frequently looked upon the reading on linguistic history of Chinese characters. Qing dynasty is like a sitting sun being lighted with classical study of Chinese Classics.
In October 2002, I contracted pneumonia and entered a hospital two weeks. At the hospital pneumonia smoothly recovered to usual health. So I thought on my study life and my main target of language at the free time. From the hospital's window the Okutama Mountains were always clearly seen. Seeing the mountains, I gradually determined that the research must be led by clear description, not by traditional style of historical language study.
But my study was mainly put on WANG Guowei's style until then. His life work, Quangtangjilin is the only book in my life. Then at the hospital bed, I confirmed that my study was mixed to clear desorption and traditional WANG's work.
In March 2003, I stayed at Hakuba, Nagano for tasting the passing wintry season’s landscape. At the place,  I suddenly floating up an idea of language study that word has time in it and that time and meaning are all shaped to be elements. At the result I finished the paper, On Time Property Inherent in Characters.

On Time Property Inherent in Characters / 28 March 2003

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The days of Sekinan Library, The 30th anniversary of foundation

The days of Sekinan Library

TANAKA Akio

Sekinan Library was founded at Tachikawa, Tokyo in 1 April 1986. Till March of that year I was a student of the post graduate course for cultural sciences and also worked at a night course of a high school for keeping daily life. At university I studied the history of Buddhism of ancient Japan mainly reading old Japanised Chinese writings while learning the history of European linguistics typically represented by The Linguistic Circle of Prague in 1920s. Buddhism was taught from Prof. KAWASAKI Tsuneyuki and linguistics was from Prof. CHINO Eiichi. In those days I had been concerned with the presentation of historical text by Chinese characters which was not any inflections in sentence, so usually called isolated language, which grammar only being controlled by word order.

I wondered that what is word order, how the grammar changes in the non-inflation words. All were in the utterly dark world because European linguistics had not made up the developed isolated language like classical Chinese. But in China especially in the era of Qing dynasty, many linguists had studied Chinese classics using vast methods historically formed since circa 500 B.C.

At March 1986, I determined that study theme was limited in the linguistic study of ideogram like Chinese character, for the study of which a new perspective would be appeared from our Oriental region still now using ideogram like China and Japan. From April I started my study while teaching modern and classical Chinese at Sekinan Library. At night frequently being called as the lecturer of Buddhism and Chinese of civic education. At that time the most interesting theme of the study was ancient Chinese characters inscribed on oracle bones and tortoise shells, which already showed the perfect system of ideogram and had been studied in the Qing dynasty's linguists, in which I was deeply fascinated by WANG Guowei's work Quantangjilin. 

Over decade after, in 2003 I could first written a paper on diagram focused on inherent time in Chinese characters. The title was " On Time Property Inherent in Characters" and its direct succession, "Quantum Theory for Language" which was presented at a conference opened at Nara in December 2003.

References
1.

1. On Time Property Inherent in Characters
2. Quantum Theory for Language

2.

1. Early Work. Sekinan Library
2. Chronicle. Sekinan Library

Tokyo
26 February 2015
SIL

Sekinan Library The 30th Anniversary

Sekinan Library
The 30th Anniversary

Founded in 1986
Tokyo

PORTAL SITE - SRFL LAB

WORK SITE - SRFL NOTE

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Sekinan Library is the research site on language from 1986 at Tokyo, where I started language study mainly related with Chinese classical philology called "Small Study", the most fundamental study base of Chinese characters using texts of Chinese philosophical classics. After the deepening down this classical study, from about millennium days, I started the youth's dream, investigating language universals inherited from the Linguistic Circle of Prague in 1920s' results, according to algebraic geometry as a incapable student affected by glorious Bourbaki's mathematics. 

GENEALOGICAL TREE OF PAPER

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COMPILED PAPERS - SEKINAN TABLE

DAILY NEWS - SRFL NEWS

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Leading Essay
Non-symmetry, 1920s' Prague and Sergej Karcevskij's "Du dualisme asymetrique du signe linguistique"

Manuscript
Manuscript of Quantum Theory for Language

Presupposition
Presupposition on Natural Language

Assumption
Sayama Assumption on Language