If offers and commands trace the ontic line of potential — readiness inclined toward or fixed within relation — then statements and questions trace its epistemic line: probability inclined toward or dispersed within construal.
Together, these form a dialogic field of potential, where reality’s very structure unfolds as an interpersonal exchange.
In statements, probability is oriented toward confirmation. The system inclines toward one construal as the most coherent alignment among possible construals. A statement is, ontologically speaking, a stabilised inclination of knowing — the field’s readiness to hold itself as true.
In questions, by contrast, probability is suspended. The inclination of knowing is held open, redistributed among alternatives, inviting rather than asserting alignment. A question is a readiness to be re-aligned — the universe waiting for its own construal.
Thus, statements and questions actualise the epistemic dimension of potential: the readiness of meaning to incline toward or away from coherence. Offers and commands, meanwhile, actualise the ontic dimension: the readiness of being to incline toward or away from relation.
Across both dimensions, the fundamental act is offering. The question offers possibility to meaning; the statement offers alignment. The offer offers relation; the command offers closure. Even negation is a kind of offer — a readiness to differentiate.
From this view, the cosmos does not “obey” laws nor “state” facts in the inert sense. It converses.
It inclines, asks, aligns, and fixes — each phase of being a different speech-functional posture within the greater dialogue of existence.
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