Comparatively True Types: A Set-Free Ontological Model of Interpretation and Evaluation Contexts

Abstract

The reality of linguistic forms (i.e. the language context) is connected to the world of prelinguistic and precognitive reality (i.e. the evaluation context) by the functions of truth and reference. Nevertheless, both truth and reference are relative. They are mediated by the cognitive module that controls all kinds of act of typing, type knowledge, or the lexicalization of these types (i.e. the interpretation context). This module has a socio-psychological reality and, in particular, has its special way of sorting and ordering the world from different perspectives. The paper argues that these perspectives bring about taxonomical orders, and granular, aspectual, and selective views of reality. Based on the Theory of Granular Partitions, we outline a formal-ontological approach to modeling both the evaluation and the interpretation context, bringing together the cognitive perspective and the actual counterparts of reference and truth.