Cosmos of Meaning, Part 3 Construals of Possibility

Every cosmos is a cut in the field of possibility. What becomes actual is always perspectival, situated, and relational. A cosmos is never a neutral backdrop; it is the selection of some potentials, the suppression of others, and the alignment of relations that make a world intelligible to a collective.

Meaning arises in this act of construal. To actualise one possibility is to render others latent; to stabilise one pattern is to allow relations to crystallise into orienting structures. Myth, science, and everyday practice all perform this construal. Each maps potential into structured actuality, producing horizons of action, expectation, and coherence.

To study construals of possibility is to study how worlds are made. It is to see that reality is not pre-given, but continually brought forth through the symbolic, relational acts that organise what can and cannot be. In this sense, meaning is cosmogenic: it is the process by which cosmos is continually realised, perspectival cut by perspectival cut.