Paradox

Generative Anthropology is essentially paradoxical because paradoxicality is constitutive of the first Ostensive sign and everything that follows (human culture itself). The first Ostensive sign is paradoxical because it refers to and designates as significant the central object that was already significant but only recognizably so once designated.

This signifying paradox emerges because the (now) humans on the scene point to, name and thereby create the central figure that was already there, already a compelling and repelling substantial being—in which case, naming it is just recognizing it for what it is. It is paradoxicality that can never be “proven” or reduced to any particular ostensive sign, because it is ostensivity itself.