THE PROBLEM OF REFERENTS OF FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS

The problem of the referents is that we do not know what the fundamental concepts (time, life, consciousness...), which are original for many sciences, mean. It is proposed to interpret those fragments of reality that are designated by these concepts as sign systems. This makes it possible to expand their content by using not only the causality relation, but also the selfreference relation, i.e. the relation that leads to the performativity of statements that prepare the referent of these dimensions of being. It is shown that the division of time contexts into physical (time) and grammatical time (tense) leads to self-referential relations and performativity of time, which allows using time as a general “generative grammar” for performative ordering in the mechanism of “preparation” of referents of the above fundamental concepts.