THE LIVING WORD AS A HORIZON OF REALITY: FROM THE POTENTIAL OF MEANING TO EVENT OF TRUTH
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The article analyzes the metaphor of the “living word” as a special mode of linguistic reality in which meaning transitions from a potential state to an event-like actualization. The initial problem is the inadequacy of two analytically reconstructed models of language: the correspondence model, which understands language as a means of reflecting the world, and the constructivist model, which treats it as a mechanism for producing reality. Both models fail to explain how a word becomes an event capable of transforming consciousness, intersubjective relations, and the very configuration of lived reality. The article proposes to view language as a horizon for the potential actualization of reality, a horizon that is activated in a concrete speech act. On this basis, the “living word” is defined not as a metaphor but as an operational concept capturing the transition from potential meaning to actuality. Special attention is given to the problem of truth, understood as a form of meaning actualization in free and responsible dialogue. The criteria for such an event of truth are parrhesia, kairos, and sympheron. It is concluded that reality is not merely described by language nor arbitrarily constructed by it, but rather actualized between the participants of communication in the event of the living word.

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philosophy of language, living word, truth, correspondence theory of truth, constructivist model of language, parrhesia, Kairos, sympheron, communitarian nature of truth, General Theory of the Living Word (GTLW), psycholinguistics, interface theory of word meaning, artificial intelligence
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