Author(s)

John W. Oller Jr.

Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA.

The human language capacity at the 11th dimension of the material manifold enables us to construct countless true narrative representations (TNRs) and derivatives grounded in their meaningful components. Every true narrative consists of a sequence of signs reporting a distinct sequence of material events. The simplest TNRs are constructed in a chronological order. The constructive proofs given here show that time is dynamic. Although the present instant must be unextended to be distinct from past and future instants, it includes the unbounded past and future from the vantagepoint of TNRs. Ordinary wakeful experience—during which any competent observer is not drugged, hallucinating, or cleverly deceived—reveals itself in a series of TNRs. The past is determined by existing TNRs but the future is always becoming determined as the present instant is represented. Perceptually grounded experience truthfully reported by one or many observers, outranks any system of beliefs or expectations grounded only in theories or even in the laws constructed from such theories—this follows because TNRs have been proved to be consistently (without any contradictions) connected with each other. It follows that ordinary TNRs form the whole basis for the sciences pertaining to the material world. If this is so, linguistics—at the front and center of semiotic studies, the studies of meaningful sign systems—outranks the other empirical sciences with physics at their base and material extremity.

Dimensionality, Human Language Capacity, Manifolds, Quanta, Quantum Physics, TNR-Theory, True Narrative Representations, Unextended Present Instant

Oller Jr., J.W. (2023) The Human Language Capacity and Physics: Eleven Dimensions of Empirical Reality Proved by Construction. Open Access Library Journal, 10, 1-9. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1110880.