Chapter 56: Temporalization Operators

the relevant chapter identified temporalization as language’s most consequential addition to the subsymbolic layer. This chapter formalizes the structure of symbolic time. Tense, aspect, and mood are not surface features of grammar but functorial operations on the category of propositions—endofunctors that relocate, re-shape, and modalize propositional content. The formalization connects linguistic temporalization to the phenomenological account of temporal experience developed in Part III.