Verbatim quote · defining passage

“Metaphysics aims at abstracting declarative culture from the ostensive-imperative world as completely as possible—metaphysics never comes to an end because this abstraction can never be complete: the world can never be completely described through declarative sentences that are comprised of words that can themselves be defined in declarative sentences without ever having to come to rest upon an ostensively defined word— ultimately, a name.”

— Adam Katz, Anthropomorphics: An Originary Grammar of the Center · 2020 · Anthropomorphics