Under the Dim Light

Under the Dim Light

TANAKA Akio


I frequently talked with CHINO Eiichi at the coffee shop near the station we used to get on. The shop was at the second floor and the steps upstairs always sounded squeaking. Under the dim light the topics of conversation was on language or linguistics after all. He was already the university professor but I was a poor research student. But he was always showed me the general tenderness.

The subject he gave me were impressive and useful for me, in which the most important is the history of the Linguistic Circle of Prague and the excellent pioneers of language study. He had of course the unique approach to the study but I had never any conspicuous one except boundless interest on the study.

In his wide and precious telling for me I gradually determined my course to proceed. It was the making of basic and radical foundation on natural language by searching the structure of language through simple and clear description. For keeping this difficult aim I had a decision that there was only way to use mathematics that I had abandoned at the past for its hardness.

In my age 20s, I had read Ludwig Wittgenstein and Nicolas Bourbaki in concentrating. I did not clearly understand Wittgenstein’s approach. But I borrowed his writing style that was simple and clear. So my early work’s descriptions were nearly at him. But I decided that I never adopted strongly-intuitive thinking.

I always considered mathematical basis or analogy. My aim was the independence from the intuitive description. Keeping on this course, there was seen the mathematical basis that I must adopt the model in which language universals are clearly described. I entered to the mathematical description of study that was confirmed premises of my way.

Sekinan Table: Quantum Group Language Word Indexed and Word Synthesized

Sekinan Table: Quantum Group Language Word Indexed and Word Synth...:   Quantum Group Language Word Indexed and Word Synthesized 14/07/2018 18:41   Quantum Group Language      Word Indexed and Word Synthesized ...

SRFL News: Inspiration The Time of Quantum

SRFL News: Inspiration The Time of Quantum:   31/08/2015 15:5 Inspiration      The Time of Quantum   TANAKA Akio In August  2003, I went to   Hakuba in Nagano prefecture for the summer...

SRFL News: Why I started Quantum-Nerve Theory? Note and Note 2 for The Time of Language

SRFL News: Why I started Quantum-Nerve Theory? Note and Note ...:   Why I started Quantum-Nerve Theory? Note and Note 2 for The Time of Language The Time of Language Ode to  The Early Bourbaki To Grothendie...

Sekinan Table: KAJIMURA Hideki His Korean Classroom With Note

Sekinan Table: KAJIMURA Hideki His Korean Classroom With Note:   KAJIMURA Hideki His Korean Classroom With Note 17/10/2019 21:29 KAJIMURA Hideki His Korean Classroom  TANAKA Akio I first met KAJIMURA at ...

Sekinan Table: Genealogical Tree of Sekinan's Paper 7th Edition

Sekinan Table: Genealogical Tree of Sekinan's Paper 7th Edition:   Genealogical Tree of Sekinan's Paper 7th Edition TANAKA Akio Tokyo 18 July 2015 First Edition 15 February 2018 7th Edition SRFL Lab __...

Sekinan Table: Letter to Y. Of Broad Language 4th Edition 5 February 2018. Translated by Google translate 2020

Sekinan Table: Letter to Y. Of Broad Language 4th Edition 5 Febr...:   Letter to Y. Of Broad Language 4th Edition  5 February 2018. Translated by Google translate 2020 Letter to Y. Of Broad Language 4th Editio...