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Meaning minimum 2017 Edition

Meaning minimum 2017 Edition
Meaning minimum
On Roman Jakobson, Sergej Karcevskij and CHINO Eiichi

TANAKA Akio

1.
Meaning minimum is one of the kernel concepts for the model of language universals on my study. The concept was at first thought from Roman Jakobson's semantic minimum on which I first read at his book, ESSAIS DE LINGUISTIGUE GENERALE, 1973.　His concept was yet intuitive at the linguistic study history in the latter half of the 20th century.Comparison with his concept, my definition of meaning minimum was a certain basis prepared in the learning of mathematics, especially on algebraic geometry, that is the most fantastic approach to the construction of the language model. But the contents of meaning minimum is vacant. This concept shows the minimum unit of one big constructive meaning of word. meaning minimum seems to be correspondent with element of set theory, which theory and foundations of mathematics had been my favourite mathematical basis in 1970s, my youth time. Bourbaki was always echoed around us. Grothendieck was a highest star in this world.

2.
Time went vast from at that time. Set theory became one of the premise field of mathematics. But in my part, set theory's agenda was put at a another point. Because language has a certain expanded world that seems to be continuous. Set theory's atomic discreteness does not match in my primary learning level. So, in my age 30s, I had sank in the philosophically intuitive thinking often referring the tradition of 1920s, especially of the Linguistic Circle of Prague. On the circle my teacher CHINO Eiichi had taught me from time to time on the campus of university or coffee shop near the station we used. CHINO had gone to the Czechoslovakia Republic from 1959 to 1967. I first met him in 1969 at his Russian class at my third year of university student. I was the age 21 and he was 37.

3.
At the age 23's 1971 spring, I graduated university and once became a high school's teacher and again returned back to university in 1979 after 8 year job of the school. At that time I thought of characters' distinctive features on Written Chinese classics. I mainly read WANG Guowei, ZHANG Binglin, DUAN Yucai, WANGYyinzhi being guided by Japanese modern scholar KANO Naoki. Expressly I had attracted to WANG Guowei and his book Guantangjilin. Besides reading these China's Qing dynasty's linguistic peaks, I had always thought on Ludwig Wittgenstein for his endless pursuit on language. So I resigned school and came back to the campus where I again met with CHINO. I was age 30s and he was 50s. He was already the big scholar at the linguistic field but I was a poor return student. But I dare to say we were colleagues for language study. He taught me the detailed and strict tradition of the linguistic Circle of Prague. He frequently talked on Sergej Karcevskij and his eminent discernment on language. In the later year's masterpiece, Janua Linguisticae Reserata, 1994, he wrote only Karcevskij as genius in the great linguists.

4.
Being led by CHINO, I again started linguistic learning on meaning that I had been interested in from my 20s but too hard to approach by my talent. This time I had Karcevskij's fine insight to meaning enough absorbing the fertile tradition of Prague, where also exist Jakobson and Mathesius. Through the learning I gradually lean to desire to write clear definitions on language. I again remembered the little learning of my 20s age's mathematics. Bourbaki, Godel, TAKEUCHI and their set theory, foundations of mathematics and that Incompleteness theorem. I had learnt mathematics little by little, inch by inch.

5.
CHINO Died in 2002 at age 70 and I became 55. The next year 2003, I wrote a short paper titled "Quantum Theory for Language". This paper was showed at a international symposium on Silk road for dealing with language from Chinese characters on linguistic viewpoint. I knew that Asian civilisation and history had great concern not only from Asia but also European continents. At the symposium some 400 researchers gathered in the various scholarly fields. It was a awesome encounter for my study, namely, East meet West. Probably Chinese character's agenda will be written by Europe oriented mathematics. WANG Guowei will meet with karcevskij mediated through mathematics' description. The target confronted at that time was time inherent in characters, or time in word. In Chinese, particularly in classical written Chinese, all the characters show enough independent meaning in one character probably including even time. It was my first conjecture taught from Karcevskij and CHINO. Meaning minimum is on the boat going across to the opposite shore. This metaphor was derived from WANG Guowei's famous paper, "Yin- bu zhong suojian xiangong xianwang kao"

6.
The concept of time inevitably led to the concept of distance. In 2004, I wrote a paper titled "Distance Theory". But the paper was yet intuitive and not clear for descriptive definition. So hereinafter I learnt algebra inch by inch being assisted with the rich heritage of geometry. In the centre of learning, always exist time that connotes finiteness and infinity. But infinity is not easily obtained without probably only loop space at the present. And again returns back to meaning minimum as the passenger of the boat named time property inherent. This time the passenger on the boat is called operad or algebraic language.

7.
After all I came back to the very dream that I had embraced since the high school days. It was a fundamental ask on language related with mathematics and physics. The root of language would be able to describe by mathematics and physics. In my mind language is always put at the centre of the pursuit that was what anyone can clearly understand. Description by mathematics, but physics why (Note 1)?. Physics treats with substance that constructs the world in which I had desire to let language enter. It started at Substantiality of language (References 2. 2). It was my dream and probably will be so, hereafter.

References
1.
<Meaning minimum>
Cell Theory Continuation of Quantum Theory for Language / From Cell to Manifold For LEIBNIZ and JAKOBSON / Tokyo June 2, 2007
<Bourbaki>
The Time of Language Ode to The Early Bourbaki To Grothendieck / January 10, 2012
2.
<CHINO Eiichi>
Fortuitous Meeting What CHINO Eiichi Taught Me in the CLass of Linguistics / Tokyo December 5, 2004
<The Linguistic Circle of Prague>
Linguistic Circle of Prague / Tokyo 13 July 2012, 19 July 2012 Added
3.
<WANG Guowei>
The Complete Works of WANG Guowei / Tokyo 24 May 2012
<Ludwig Wittgenstein>
The Time of Wittgenstein / Tokyo January 20, 2012
<Sergej Karcevskij>
Notes for KARCEVSKIJ Sergej / Note for KARCEVSKIJ Sergej's "Du dualisme asymetrique du signe linguistique" / Tokyo September 8, 2011
4.
<Set Theory>
Quantum Linguistics / Growth of Word Dedicated to TAKEUCHI Gaishi / Tokyo January 30, 2006
5.
<Quantum Theory for Language>
Quantum Theory for Language Synopsis / Tokyo January 15, 2004
<Time inherent in characters>
On Time Property Inherent in Characters / Hakuba March 28, 2003
6.
<Distance>
Distance Theory / Tokyo May 5, 2004<Meaning minimum and distance>
sekinanlogos / Floer Homology Language / Supersymmetric Harmonic Oscillator / Tokyo May 6, 2009
<Loop space>
sekinanmodel / Infinite Loop Space Language / Word as Infinite Loop Space / 6 December 2012
<Operad>
ifbetruezoho / Operad Meaning Theory / From Cell to Operad / 4 March 2013
7.
<Description>
sekinanmetria / Notes for KARCEVSKIJ Sergej / Description of Language / September 9, 2011
<Substantiality>
sekinanlogos / Floer Homology Language / Potential of Language / Tokyo June 16, 2009
<Amalgation>
Language, amalgation of mathematics and physics / ifbetrue 2 April 2013

# Here ends the paper.

Tokyo
6 April 2013
Sekinan Library

References 2
14 September 2014
1. Roger Penrose / 25 October 2012
2. Substantiality Dedicated to SAPIR Edward / 27 February 2005
3. Perhaps Return to Physics / 16 August 2014

References 3
25 July 2017
Category theory shows a new approach for the further step.
1. Karcevskij conjecture 1928 and Kawamata conjecture 2002
2. Additional meaning and embedding
3. The comparison between 2003 and 2017 From Chinese character's meaning structure to Homological algebraic model of language universals

Reference 4
29 July 2017
1. Edward Sapir gave me a moment to study language universals together with Sergej Karcevskij

Language and I 2017

Language and I

Sekinan Library has researched on language from 1986 and successively at SRFL from 2003.
Papers and essays that have been written at Sekinan Library and SRFL Sekinan Research Field of Language
are shown and searched at SRFL Essay and SRFL Paper.
Sekinan Library's main theme is now at language universals that has been a hard target and researched since 1920s at Linguistic Circle of Prague, but the theme had been always put aside from the centre of the study.
In Japan. on Prague School CHINO Eiichi probably first introduced systematically through his direct study experience at Prague between 1958 and 1964.

I first met with him in 1969 at Tokyo, from whom received Russian language lesson at the beginner's small class.
And after some 10 years I again met him in 1979 at his lecture on structural linguistics, to which I listen till till March 1986 when I get apart from the university.

In 1986 I also started to study my own object on language, in which the main theme was language universals by mathematical description, surging from Nicolas Bourbaki, that were already applied to wide and deep approach even at human studies at that time.

For me algebraic geometry was the great aid to deepen the theme, to which from 1920s many researchers have recognised one of the most important but hard to operate with clear description at the field of philology.

In 2003 I narrowly wrote up the trial paper on language's characters, at that time not for total language, but I got the steady way to approach the hard target of language's basis mainly on meaning, through which I faintly could see the final target, language universals.

TANAKA Akio

Tokyo
26 June 2017
Sekinan Library

To my dear friend, KANEKO Yutaka 2013

To my dear friend, KANEKO Yutaka

TANAKA Akio

We were always sitting at the right end of the classroom, where the seats were near the entrance from the corridor, so classmates entered the room with rattling noises. But we liked the seats rather satisfying. We were G class of the third year of the high school, which class was all hoped to go universities of the mathematical or science fields.

The seats were free to sit but almost determined by the personalities. Serious were sitting at the comparatively before widows sites. The seats were silent and easy to concentrate. We were also serious to the learning but liked the most bad seats that could not concentrate by the various noises for entering and out-going. Sometimes the

KANEKO Yutaka and I first met at this class and became best friend. He probably hoped to go to chemistry and I was physics. He was very good at mathematics and I was ordinary at math. I sometimes asked him how to solve the hard quests of math. At that time he smiled to me and said, " there's any little paper? The problem can be written enough by such a little space."

Over the our seats, frequently flew to the end of the class where the trash can was set always filled with the calculate-papers for math and writing of English. The members of the class all were eager to solve math quests for preparing to entrance examinations to the universities. At the result they threw the used papers over us to the can. So around the can, the scraps were littered with. I was never tidy but I was the nearest one to the can, so I sometimes went to trash dump to clean the can.

After we graduated the high school, he studied chemistry as planned at university. But I selected language study, not physics. I also liked philosophical or linguistic fields for their long historical heritages. What I returned to the field related with physics was already over the year 30s. My research object was narrowed to language universals using mathematical writing or physical approach.

After half a century, he died by disease in his researching way. I have learnt same theme on language using maths way not solving any quest from 1920s' Linguistic Circle of Prague. I dream that over my head still now vain calculate-papers are being thrown to the can behind us. If I ask him to help me for solving, he will say to me wanting tiny paper to write the answer concisely with his dear smiling as ever.

References
1. Language, amalgamation of mathematics and physics / 13 May 2013
2. Clifford Algebra A trial for amalgamation of mathematics and physics / 20 April 2014
3. Reversion Conjecture Revised /1 May 2014

Tokyo
22 May 2013 Text written
20 April 2014 Reference added
8 August 2014 Reference added
Sekinan Research Field of Language

Sunday, 2 September 2018

Thanks to physics through which I ever dreamt in my future 2016-2017

Thanks to physics through which I ever dreamt in my future
TANAKA Akio

In the days of high school, I deeply dreamt that someday physics would perfectly write over this world's phenomena by the clearest descriptions. So I had longed for studying physics in the future. But I selected language's diverse and wide field at the university, from where returning to the clear description like mathematics needed long and winding road for me.

Now in my mind language and physics/mathematics are happily living together for constructing the world's main frame. I wonder why I took so much time to reach here.

Long time ago, at least the days I strongly influences by Pascal , philosophy and mathematics were both sides of areas for solving the world's hard problems. It is appropriate that the problems should be solved using all the tools from all the areas, should not be partitioned any artificial walls.

From now on, philosophy so far may be partially solved by mathematics and mathematics might open to the door of complex phenomena in the world never being written clearly. Now they are surely solved one by one by the researchers and we feel the solutions like those are becoming common sense now.

Probably only I reached here being delayed. But at last I am now situated in a tranquil field. Thanks so many pioneers who had cultivated difficult problem to the easier states for applying to the different fields. Especially to mathematicians. Also to physicians through whose worlds I ever dreamt in my future.

References:

Tokyo
24 April 2016
SRFL Note
11 December 2017 Text partially revised
Geometrization Language

Read more: https://srflnote.webnode.com/news/thanks-to-physics-through-which-i-ever-dreamt-in-my-future/

Perhaps Return to Physics 2014

Perhaps Return to Physics

TANAKA Akio

Recently my situation for language research has changed rather drastically.
I have loved mathematics ever since I understood that mathematics was the only fantastic way for solving the problems of the nature through absolute clear description.

When I was at the third grade of the high school, I remained in the class room for solving the swing state of a pendulum movement. It was the simple differential equation. But at that time I realised that one short equation contained the whole universe of a tiny pendulum. it was a real meeting with the mathematics and the our world.
At high school, I thought that the most fantastic way of life was in physics, especially in theoretical physics.

In the autumn 1965, the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to TOMONAGA Shin-ichiro. In the next morning of announcement, at our mathematics-science class was full of the prize about his award.
In those days I already determined my university's speciality to theoretical physics. TOMONAGA's award was the splendid delight for me and the other science- course class mates.
But various reasons led me to philology at the university life.

Since then nearly half a century passed by. My study on language was dimmed in the vast historical heritage of linguistics that had surely shown the many results for language. But my mind was not fine on my road up to that time. My object gradually became to the one that was clear and understandable whoever desire to participate to talk with language. At the result after long winding road I reached at the concrete place for study. It was the description by mathematics. It was the days of my mid 30s in 1980s.

From those days some 20 years passed by. I became at 50s. I had written the short papers little by little. Mathematics was really free to approach. I freely thought and imagined on language's essential parts. Several models were made for the situation of language's particular phases. But I recognised that mathematics starts at the some axioms and theorems and reached a curtain high place' situation, which road is absolutely strict and exact and there is perfectly nothing related with real our world's phenomena, in my part on natural language.

So recently I began to think that no relation with models and natural phenomena on language was easily overcome by adopting the physical method using mathematics' various results. perhaps I return to physics which was my favourite in the high school days. Physics connects world and model freely. All the explanations are approximate values for world' phenomena. At this place I can freely adopt the models not thinking the theoretical consistency.

Now I am standing at the physical based place that was dreamt in my high school days.

References
1. Language, amalgamation of mathematics and physics / 13 May 2013
2. True and False / Hierarchy of Language / July 25 – July 27, 2006
3. True-false problem of the Crete / 22 July 2013
4. Half farewell to Sergej Karcevskij and the Linguistic Circle of Prague / 23 October 2013

Tokyo
16 August 2014
Sekinan Research Field of Language

Reference added
2 September 2014
Writing Style of the Papers in 2013 / 10 August 2014
10 February 2015
Winding road to physics / 16 January 2015

Abstract From Letter to the library Short autobiography between 1969 and 1986 / 2018

Abstract

From
Letter to the library Short autobiography between 1969 and 1986
1.

Chapter 5

私は1986年3月、研究生を終了するとともに、それまでの仕事も退職し、4月から Sekinan Libraryという研究場所を設け新たな活動を始めました。
当時私の進路を案じてくださったA先生ご夫妻が、幾度かお電話をくださったことを、心からありがたく思われ、感謝する思いが今も消えません。
AMINO Yoshihiko, historian of modern Japan

Chapter 11

日本仏教史のK先生のすごさもたびたび経験し、時にはそのすごさに、私自身の顔が真っ青になるようなことがありました。
或る時漢文の返り点「レ点」の話になったとき、これは日本独自の問題ですので、先生に、この初出はいつなのでしょうね、尋ねましたとき、先生は初出かどうかはわからないが、道長の「御堂関白記」（みどうかんぱくき）に出てくるよと、話されましたので、私はその時まったく偶然にも、3巻全部の御堂関白記をカバンで持ってきていましたので、先生にお渡しすると、細かくびっしりと組まれた東大史料編纂所刊行の三冊の中から、一冊を取り出し、二三ページめくっただけで、「田中君、ここだよ」と示されたときは、まさしく顔面蒼白となりました。４，５行読み取るだけでも当時の私にはかなり難解な本文を、先生はほとんど記憶していたのです。
先生からは今も決して忘れることのない、大切なことばを教えてもらいました。多分、比叡山のことを話していたときだったと思います。
先生は、「僧には行僧（ぎょうそう）と学僧があって、行僧は行をしていればよく、学僧は学をしていればいいんだよ」ということばでした。人には人それぞれの
生きる使命があるのだよ、ということを、いつもの先生の静かな言い方で語ってくださったのだと思います。このことばは私の生涯のことばのひとつとなりました。
先生の思い出はあまりにも多く、もうずっと以前にエッセイ「すてきなおとうさん」でほんの少し先生のことに触れましたが、それ以外には今もほとんど書けないでいます。
Papa Wonderful 37 Photo
3.

Chapter 13

Kj先生は、私が教職の試験などで欠席が重なった時、自宅宛てに手紙を書いてくださり、「田中君、どうしましたか、お元気ですか」と心配してくださったのが昨日のように思い出されます。一度は「自宅に来ませんか」と誘ってくださったのですが、そこまで甘えるのはいけないと思い、遠慮しましたが、のちに先生が早逝なさったとき、先生の優しさにお答えしなかったことが悔やまれました。比較的近かったＫa大学なのでいつでもお会いできると思っていました。
KAJIMURA Hideki His Korean Classroom

Chapter 13

静かなCh先生が、私の韓国語の「ｲﾑﾆﾀﾞ」の発音に何度も首を振られて認めようとなさらず、最後に「この発音はむずかしいから」と慰めてくれました。先生の言語に対する厳しさを垣間見た一瞬でした。
Papa Wonderful 25 Foreign Language
或るとき、授業終了後、前々から気になっていた、韓国における漢文訓読の仕方について、先生にお尋ねすると、先生は丁寧に黒板に板書しながら、その仕組みを教えてくださいました。
そしてまた別の日、先生と夕暮れ近い窓辺で、先生が韓国語との出会いをお話ししてくださったことがありました。先生がＴg大学で中国語を学んだあと、韓国の延世大に留学なさった細かな経緯をこのときはじめて知りました。そのとき私も実はＴg大の中国語科でしたと、お伝えしたかったのですが、なぜかそれは切り出せませんでした。それは今もなにか悔やまれるおもいとして、残っています。
5.

Chapter 8
中国文学のO先生は、私の卒業後、しばらくして卒業時の謝恩会の私が写った写真を、手紙を添えてわざわざ自宅宛てに送ってくださいました。
先生とは研究生時代に、帰りの小田急でご一緒させていただいた折、私が「先生、難解な元曲をよくゼミで取り上げられましたね」とたずねますと、先生は「ああいうものもしないといけないからね」というお言葉でした。しかしこの会話が先生との生前の最後のものとなりました。
O先生は私が専攻科時代に、修了のための論文として空海の著作の編年を言語的に検証したものを書きましたとき、K先生が私の論考をO先生に伝えていて、廊下でお会いしたとき、「田中君、君の論文と同じような方法をカールグレンが書いているのを知っているかね」と尋ねられ、私は「カールグレンの、グラマタ・セリカは見ていますが、私のような方法を記した論考は見ていません」と答えますと、先生は「研究室にそれを私が訳したものがあるから、見るかね」とおっしゃって、研究室で私にその大切なご本を貸与してくださいました。そのことをK先生に伝えると、Oさんは言語の達人だからね、と微笑みながら楽しそうに話してくださったことを、鮮明に覚えています。
その後、先生が訳された「左伝真偽考」は神田の中国語専門書店、山本書店で見つけ購入したことを先生にお伝えしました。このことは、カールグレンの業績とともに、O先生への感謝をしるす文としてSite に載せました。
ONO Shinobu and Bernhald Karlgren
O先生の深い学識に改めて触れたのも、この専攻科の論文について、先生が述べた短い言葉でした。田中君の方法はカールグレンに似ているがあの方法を多用するのは注意した方がいいよ、と述べられたのでした。先生はもうそれ以上何もお話しになりませんでしたが、私には先生の注意が、痛いほどわかりました。私が論文を書きながら最も気になったことだったからです。
私は論文を空海について書くことは早くから決めていました。しかしその方法がわからず、迷い続けていました。仏教史のK先生に提出するために、私が取れる方法がほとんどなかったからでした。古代史的にも仏教史的にも、私が何か新しいものを提示できることなど、限られた専攻科の時間の中ではほとんど存在しなかったのです。夏休みに入り、隣の市の本屋さんにたまたま立ち寄ったとき、そこでまったく偶然に、私は、日本の古代文学の高木市之助先生が書かれた岩波書店刊行の「貧窮問答歌の論」を眼にして、手に取りました。この本は,山上憶良の貧窮問答歌を全く独創的な方法で、分析したものでした。私は立ち読みのまま、高木先生の「文字の論」が私の求める方法であったことをその場で実感しました。この方法を用いれば、いくばくかの新しい結果をK先生に報告できるかもしれないと思ったのです。
高木先生は、貧窮問答歌の中に現れる漢字を訓字と音字に分けて、その出現度数を精査し、そこから貧窮問答歌の万葉集における特異性を指摘しようとしました。私の場合、空海の「三教指帰」の漢字本文全体の個々の文字の出現度数を調べ、その中で特に助字の度数を比べることによって、もしかしたら空海の記述の特性が浮かび上がるかもしれないというものでした。それからは毎日、時間があれば「三教指帰」全文の漢字の出現度数を調べ続けました。
論文提出の期限が近づく中、全文の漢字出現度数は完成し、助字の出現度数の多寡は確定しましたが、それによっては、空海の記述の特性は明瞭にはなりませんでした。冬が近づく中で、私はいろいろな方法を試しながら、最後に一つの方法を思いつきました。漢字出現度数は最終的な静的な結果であり、漢字出現の動的状況ではないことに思い至りました。空海が「三教指帰」を記述してゆくとき、どのような間隔で特定の助字を使用するか、その動的な記述の状況を調べればなにか特性が現れるのではないかと感じたのでした。
「三教指帰」全体の中から、頻出する特定の助字を選出し、それらがどのような間隔差で出現するかを、方眼用紙上に棒グラフとして示していきました。すると、上巻と下巻は助字の出現状況が近似しているのに、中巻だけはまったく異なる出現状況が、グラフ上に明示されたのです。「三教指帰」の中巻は上巻・下巻に比較してきわめて短いもので、その特異さはかつてから指摘はされていましたが、私はこの助字の出現状況から、上巻と下巻はほぼ同時期に書かれたが、中巻だけはこれとは別の時期に書かれたのではないかと推測し、これを論文の結論としました。
漢字の静的な出現度数に時間差という動的状況を加えた分析から著作の撰述時期に区分を付けたのでした。
Ｏ先生が訳されたカールグレンの「左伝真偽考」では「春秋左氏伝」に出現するいくつかの助字を「論語」と「孟子」の助字の出現と比較することによって、「左伝」の作者特定や時代を特定しようとしていました。確かに私が用いた方法と近似するものでした。
しかしＯ先生の慧眼は、カールグレンや私の方法の一定の有用性を認めたうえで、この方法の大きな問題点を見逃してはいなかったのです。
問題点の大きな一つを簡潔に述べれば、検査する著作の量的大きさが，挙げられます。いわゆる母集団の大きさです。「春秋左氏伝」は「論語」や「孟子」に比べて圧倒的に膨大な著作です。空海の「三教指帰」について言えば、上巻と下巻は、中巻に比べてずっと大きな著述になっているのです。つまり、量的にあまり均質でない集団を比較することの危険性ということになります。私自身が論文を書きながら、この危うさに気付いてはいましたが、そこに立ち止まると論文が完成しないために、この母集団の比較検討を行うことなく、論文をまとめてしまいました、Ｏ先生の慧眼は、そのことを見逃さなかったのです。
先生は私の研究生時代に急逝されました。私は先生からもっともっと多くのことを教えていただきたかったと、先生の温容を思い浮かべながら、思わずにはいられません。

Chapter 10

中国哲学のN先生のゼミにも研究生時代に先生が病没なさるまで参加させていただきました。温泉にも数回御一緒させてもらいました。旅館では夜、ほかの学生もいたのでしょうが、私は先生と二人で相対し、先生から「哲学史は教えられるが、哲学は教えられない」ということや、段玉裁の「説文解字注」に話が飛んだとき、先生あの本はどうですか、とたずねますと、先生は即座に「あんなむずかしい本読めるかいな」とか言って笑っていました。先生の講義はまさしく絶品で、私はノートを取りながら、読み返すと、そのままでほとんど著作となる素晴らしさに驚きました。ゼミでは中国革命以前の諸著作を翻訳で読んでいましたが、途中で先生が、この訳ちょっと変だねとおっしゃるので、私はいつも原本を持ってきていましたので、そこを見ると誤訳というのではないが、確かに少し変な訳であることがしばしばあり、まさしく「眼光紙背に徹す」ということわざを実感しました。
先生が古代中国思想史で老子を講義されたとき、その内容があまりに素晴らしかったので、講義のあと先生が黒板を消されているときに、教卓のそばに行き、先生にその旨をお伝えすると、先生はもうだれもいない教室でしたが、再び黒板に向かって一本の木を描き、その枝の先端が細く虚空へと延びてゆくところを示して、この枝の先端が虚空へと消えてゆくところが、「妙」という概念だよとを教えてくださいました。
N先生のことは2度ほど、英文で載せました。
NISHI Junzo, Philosopher of Modern Japan Intuition and Mathematics Papa Wonderful 21 History

Chapter 12

言語学のC先生は、年齢的な近さとその明るいお人柄で、しばしばご一緒させていただき、帰り道から電車内まで、言語のことを教えていただきました。
先生については、かなり多くの文を書いています。初めての出会いは1969年のロシア語文法からですから、私が21歳、先生は30代半ば、まだチェコから帰られて間もないころからのお教えでした。
Fortuitous Meeting
From Distance to Pseudo-Kobayashi-Distance
Papa Wonderful 17 Professor MOMOSE
先生とは Ts 駅前の喫茶店でも幾度かお話を伺いました。私がTg大出身ということも、途中から伝えていましたので、そんな気安さからも、まさしく言語の恩師となりました。河野六郎先生の「転注考」の原本が韓国で発見されたとき、その大切さから、韓国の学者が自ら飛行機で持って来日し先生に届けられたという、学問の尊さを教えられたのもC先生からでした。
Coffee shop named California
Under the dim lightその河野先生の博士号授与にかかわったのが、Ｋ先生の盟友、比較言語学のＫz先生と, Wk 大学のＯ先生であったことは、のちにK先生から伺いました。
C先生が教えてくださったプラハ言語学サークルのことは、私はみずからのSite で幾度か取り上げました。私の30代からの方向を決定づけたものでしたから。
私は、先生とかわした、研究生時代のもう終わりに近いころの、先生との会話をいつも思い出します。
Linguistic Circle of Prague
Prague in 1920s
Half farewell to Sergej Karcevskij and the Linguistic Circle of Prague
その日、先生の講義が終わった後の立ち話の中で、たしか教室のドア付近で、先生がふと私に、今何を勉強しているのかと尋ねたときがありました。私はそのころ、1985年ですが、ゲーデル、竹内外史そしてブルバキに強い影響を受けていましたので、たとえば数字の1から９の一つ一つにどのような内的な意味構造があるのかを考えたりしています、と咄嗟に思い浮かんだことを答えました。多分竹内外史先生の著作から受けた、まったく勝手な自分なりの影響であったと思います。
Bourbaki' ELEMENTS DE MATHEMATIUE Troisieme edition, 1964
The Time of Language, Ode to the Early Bourbaki to Grothendieck
この私の返答に対して、多分先生は、私が答えた氷山の一角のような曖昧なことばの総体を見とどけ、強い口調で応じました。そんなことはやめろ、そんなことはヴィトゲンシタインのような天才が考えることだ、と。言語における意味の追求がどれほど困難なものであったかは、プラハ言語学サークルの大きな方向を見ても明白でした。
The Time of Wittgenstein
ある点では、私が最も強い影響を受けた、カルツェヴスキイの言語に対する予想自身が、一つの個峰であったのです。私を導いた、たった一つの彼の予想、言語記号の非対称的二重性。言語はなぜかくも柔らかく、そして強固か。
結果的には、先生のこうしたことばの堆積が、私の生涯の方向を決定しました。
Note for KARCEVSKIJ Sergej's "Du dualisme asymetrique du signe linguistique"
先生が学長になられて、一度お伺いしたいと思っているうちに、年月がながれ、先生の著作はほとんど読み継いでいましたが、その感想も伝えられないうちに亡くなられたことがいまも悲しみとして残ったままです。
あの古びたガタピシとした階段をのぼり、やや暗い電気の下でお話した日々が、昨日のことのように思われます。
Coffee shop named California

Tokyo

31 August 2018

T.A.

Sekinan Library

Saturday, 1 September 2018

Sekinan Library 1986-2018

Sekinan Library

Founded in 1986
Tokyo

Sekinan Library is a research site on language founded at Tokyo in 1986, where I started language study mainly related with Chinese classical philology called "Small Study", that is the most fundamental study base of Chinese characters analysis using Chinese philosophical classics. After the deepening down this classical study, since about millennium days, I again started the mathematical study of youth's dream, aiming to research language universals inherited from Linguistic Circle of Prague in 1920s' results, being assisted by algebraic geometry as a incapable student affected by glorious Bourbaki's mathematics. Sekinan Library greeted the 30th anniversary in 2016.

Work Site

Geometrization Language
For Geometrization Language

SRFL Lab
For Quantum group Language

Leading Essay
Language between Sergej Karcevskij and string theory, one century's trace
Language between Sergej Karcevskij and string theory, one century's trace / Print Edition. PDF
Meaning minimum

Letter
Letter to O. again 2 January 2018

Topic
Related with Ideogram
Essence of Language
The Days of Decipherment
The Days of Ideogram

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