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Operator of Negation is the concept Eric Gans uses in The Origin of Language to account for the kind of “negative ostensive” that would be the first proto-[[declarative]] sentence. “Operator of negation” is a term within logic and it is important in our context because Gans uses it to refer to the kind of open-ended prohibition (like “don’t smoke”) that occupies a kind of middle ground between the [[imperative]] (which must be obeyed or defied within the temporal frame of the imperative itself—if I say “pass me the salt” you haven’t complied with my request if you move the salt towards where I was sitting hours later, after I’ve gone to sleep) and the declarative, which creates a “reality” that is taken to subsist beyond any particular utterance. | Operator of Negation is the concept Eric Gans uses in The Origin of Language to account for the kind of “negative ostensive” that would be the first proto-[[declarative]] sentence. “Operator of negation” is a term within logic and it is important in our context because Gans uses it to refer to the kind of open-ended prohibition (like “don’t smoke”) that occupies a kind of middle ground between the [[imperative]] (which must be obeyed or defied within the temporal frame of the imperative itself—if I say “pass me the salt” you haven’t complied with my request if you move the salt towards where I was sitting hours later, after I’ve gone to sleep) and the declarative, which creates a “reality” that is taken to subsist beyond any particular utterance. | ||
Latest revision as of 18:13, 14 March 2023
Operator of Negation is the concept Eric Gans uses in The Origin of Language to account for the kind of “negative ostensive” that would be the first proto-declarative sentence. “Operator of negation” is a term within logic and it is important in our context because Gans uses it to refer to the kind of open-ended prohibition (like “don’t smoke”) that occupies a kind of middle ground between the imperative (which must be obeyed or defied within the temporal frame of the imperative itself—if I say “pass me the salt” you haven’t complied with my request if you move the salt towards where I was sitting hours later, after I’ve gone to sleep) and the declarative, which creates a “reality” that is taken to subsist beyond any particular utterance.
