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Re: ГлубиннаяРеференцияОтнсительно"Я" - ЗапакованнаяСЦ ↑

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Sensation is not a fact of immediate experience but a product of abstraction. The matter of sensation is never given purely in itself, prior to all: the very first perception of it contains a reference to the form of space and time. But in different domains of human spirit these forms have different modalities. Thus, space in cognition organized in other way than in myth or in art. And when somebody analises these forms, he must to precisely define in what modality or for what kind of form.
In the very first babblings of children there is a sharp distinction between sound groups of essentially "centripetal" and essentially "centrifugal". The m and n clearly reveal the inward direction, while the explosive sounds p and b, t and d reveal the opposite trend.
Everywhere certain differences in the situation or distance of the object referred to are expressed by a mere change of vowel or consonant. For the most part, the soft vowels express the place of the person addressed, the "there", while the place of the speaker is indicated by a sharper vowel. As for the consonantal elements, the role of pointing to the distance falls almost exclusively to the groups d and t, k and g, b and p. In this respect, the Indo-Germanic, Semitic and Ural-Altaic languages show an unmistakable similarity. In certain languages one demonstrative serves to indicate what lies within the speaker's sphere of perception, another what lies in the sphere of perception of the person addressed; or one form is used for an object close to the speaker, another for an object equally distant from the speaker and the person addressed, a third for an absent object.
The opposition of "inward" and "outward", on which the representation of the empirical I is based, is itself possible only because an empirical object is represented at the same time: for the I can become aware of the changes in its own states only by referring them to something permanent, to space and something in it.
The Bantu languages possess three different form of demonstratives: one indicates that the thing shown is close to the speaker; the second that it is already known, that is, has entered into the speakers's sphere of vision and thought; the third that it is far removed from the speaker and not visible for him.