Your Lexicon and its Metaphysics

Your Lexicon and its Metaphysics

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lexicon [lek-si-kon, -kuhn]

the vocabulary of a particular language,

field, social class, person, etc.

metaphysics [met-uh-fiz-iks]

philosophy, especially in its more abstruse

branches. the underlying theoretical principles

of a subject or field of inquiry.

‘The metaphysics of your lexicon’-Since the articles that are meant to explain the ‘metaphysics of your lexicon’ would be as pedantic, if not more, than what I would attempt; I might as well give you my verbiage than submit to you a new pedantic verbiage!

WHAT WORDS YOU CHOOSE TO EXPRESS YOURSELF, ALSO DEFINE THE DIMENSIONS OF YOUR CONCEPTIONS ON THAT EXPRESSION.
This is significant to me since it frames the boundaries of what your focus is and what your exhibition of thought description is presenting to others. As many of you have chastised me for “not speaking plainly” or too “pedantically” or “pretentiously”, I reply that there is a nuanced significance between, ‘Dick and Sally are arguing’ to ‘Dick and Sally are exchanging rapacious words’. The latter presents and evocative image, by my use of “rapacious”, which suggest ‘a violation of personal space’ between the two in their arguing. More broadly, using the more expansive “rapacious” than the more reductive “arguing” induces the readers imagination about the activity, than the more mundane visions that would come to mind with “arguing”.
The words, aka lexicon, we choose to use gives both the user and the receiver the nature and quality-the metaphysics-of the subject in that specific dimension which wouldn’t exist, necessarily, in the more reductive, objectivist frame of thinking and expressing one’s perception. The lexicon functions as the conjuring triggers to dimensions of thinking beyond the popular vernacular: in ways it’s the womb from which the jargon of idioms and slang gestate for their reductionist ends.