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Diacronia 1, January 13, 2015, art. A1 (p. 1–12)https://doi.org/10.17684/i1A1en

The essentialness of diachrony

Francisc Gafton

Affiliations

Faculty of Letters, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Bd. Carol I 11, 700506 Iași, Romania

History

Received December 21, 2014
Published January 13, 2015

Key words

organism
evolution
diachrony
synchrony

Motto

“The theory of natural selection is to be accepted not merely as a law of biology as such, but as a principle of the natural world, which finds appropriate application in all the sciences of life and mind.” (James Mark Baldwin)

Abstract

Natural entities—plants and animals, on the one hand, society, language, and culture, on the other—emerge through an assiduous diachronic effort, respond to diachronically developed needs, exist and function diachronically. However, through the instruments at his disposal, man can only perceive and grasp the “fragment”, seizing it for a prolonged instant, which explains his objective tendency to segment the spatiotemporal reality according to his own proportions and abilities. Reality itself, however, cannot be subjected to the unnatural segregation of one of its own products and elements, and cannot be fully comprehended in any other way than how it exists: as a whole. At the end of the synchronic road, what offers comprehension and understanding of the ontologically-becoming whole is the path of the diachronic method.

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    Text:Gafton, F. (2015). The essentialness of diachrony, Diacronia 1 (January 13), A1 (1–12), https://doi.org/10.17684/i1A1en
    BibTeX:@ARTICLE{gafton2015,
     author = {Francisc Gafton},
     title = {The essentialness of diachrony},
     journal = {Diacronia},
     ISSN = {2393-1140},
     year = {2015},
     month = {January},
     number = {1},
     eid = {A1},
     doi = {https://doi.org/10.17684/i1A1en},
     pages = "(1–12)",
     url = {https://www.diacronia.ro/journal/issue/1/A1/en}
    }

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