The Semantic Basis of Evangelion

Geoffrey 2022-03-20 09:01:59

Intuitively, all the other sixteen apostles (perhaps excluding Nagisa Kaoru) are a kind of entity , and the human being of the eighteenth apostle is a kind of predicate . The thing about an apostle is a kind of apostle (シト). And a person (ヒト) is not a human (unless you are from Tokyo).

Predicates are unsaturated, hence the human completion plan. The Human Completion Project (and its various variants and various parallel mechanisms) is conceptually a process of becoming a truth . You either need an entity , which results in a third shock. You either need a type < t> that contains a quantifier (S2 organ?). This is Eva. So a predicate rides it, and so it is an integral part of the completion plan.

Two remaining questions: (1) What is the semantic type of Nagisa Kaoru? Is he an entity? (2) How to explain the semantic principle of AT Field? This question is equally important because a single person seems to be both an entity and a predicate (completion schemes fundamentally operate on humans, not individual people. But this explanation alone does not fully solve the problem ). If the concept of AT Field is not introduced, then a person (eg Ikari Shinji) and an apostle (eg Nagisa Kaoru) may be indistinguishable.

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Neon Genesis Evangelion quotes

  • Ritsuko Akagi: So, how was Rei today?

    [Gendou does not answer]

    Ritsuko Akagi: You DID see her at the hospital this afternoon, didn't you?

    Gendô Ikari: She will be ready to work again in twenty days. By then, we'll be ready to reactivate Unit 00 from cryo-stasis.

    Ritsuko Akagi: It's so hard on these poor children.

    Gendô Ikari: There is no one else who can pilot the Evas. As long as they survive, that is what I'll have them do.

    Ritsuko Akagi: With no regard to what they might want?

  • [Shinji rescues Rei from her battered Eva]

    Shinji Ikari: Ayanami! Are you all right? Ayanami! Don't say... Don't say that you have nothing else. Don't say goodbye when you leave on a mission. It's too sad.

    [Shinji weeps]

    Rei Ayanami: Why are you crying? I'm sorry; I don't know what to do of feel at a time like this.

    Shinji Ikari: Why don't you try smiling?

    [Rei thinks of Gendo smiling, and smiles herself]