A Discursive Space

This chapter does not have, like the previous ones, a main character whose work marked the essential milestone for the reasoning being conducted here. Instead, it is the culmination of this process, presenting the final construction, which is the idea of discursive space. The chapter describes and justifies this construction in the following steps. Step one introduces the ontological interpretation of the elements of the world proposed by David Malet Armstrong, inspired by the contributions of Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein, allowing for an appropriate level of unification of concepts needed to understand the level of functioning of discourse as a phenomenon of knowledge. The second step describes the dispersion of knowledge, which results from exogenous factors, e.g. the development of technology and social and endogenous changes related to the processes of knowledge accumulation and storage. The third step recalls the role and way of existence of discourse, which is interpreted as constantly emerging reasoning, leading to knowledge. This step can assume such a role thanks to the reconfiguration of the role of man, on the one hand thrown into the changing world of social determinations and, on the other freed and able to produce arbitrary interpretations of the reality that surrounds him. The knowledge that is the product of this process is dispersed in a completely arbitrary, random way. Its existence is dynamic and multiple. As such, it lends itself to modeling by means of the phase space in which discourses traverse multidimensional spaces, materializing according to the logic of discourse: as utterances. The multiplicity of discourses creates the need for a structure more general than space, that is, a manifold. At the same time, the example of discourse open up the possibility of the existence of the higher order of knowledge, which can also include other, also unknown forms of it, going beyond the language. The units of knowledge moving along trajectories then would have a different character, and a new concept would become necessary to name them. The author proposes the word of gnosem, which allows one to cover every form of knowledge, closing the book’s reasoning with this proposal.