Dōgen and the Linguistics of Reality

The goal of this article is to show how Dōgen’s views language, perhaps the most “mystical” part his thought at first glance, can be interpreted in a framework that wholly rational broader sense word. Dōgen belongs pansemioticist tradition and indeed maintains being tantamount signification, but unlike previous pansemioticists, such as Kūkai, he does not posit signifying subjective Other whom “message” reality attributed. In view, meaningfulness an event concomitant characteristic its very reality, because availability for us experience already linguistic phenomenon. argues mystical thesis, view also articulated more familiar fully idiom, it bears similarities with many different Western thinkers theorists, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Gadamer, Peirce, Jakobson, others.