Bioessential Deterministic paradigm: Expanding Anthropocentrism

This article continues the research published in the journal Philosophical Thought No. 9 and 10 (2024) and No. 1 (2025). The purpose of the article is to substantiate the bioessential deterministic paradigm in linguistics as an anthropocentric one in a broad sense. The subject of the research is the bioessential deterministic paradigm, understood as anthropocentric in a broad sense. The relevance of the article is due to the adoption of the Declaration on Animal Consciousness. In April 2024, the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness was adopted by the scientific community. This declaration asserts the existence of consciousness of animals. Since consciousness, mind, thinking and language are interconnected, the authors suggest talking about the language of animals. The authors believe that all living things have the language ability and are bioessentially determined. The anthropocentric paradigm studies language from the standpoint of a native speaker. In previous articles, the system-structural and bioessential-deterministic meta-paradigms were described in a transdisciplinary aspect. In this article, the authors describe the bioessential deterministic paradigm in a single discipline - linguistics. In linguistics, the system-structural and anthropocentric paradigms are traditionally distinguished. It is traditionally considered that systemic structuralism studies language as a system of signs, while anthropocentrism studies language taking into account the human factor. The authors propose to expand the understanding of anthropocentrism. The terms bioessential deterministic paradigm and bioessential determinism are introduced. The bioessential deterministic paradigm is understood as an anthropocentric paradigm in a broad sense. Bioessential determinism is understood as being conditioned by the essence of life; the essence is conditioned by life. Bioessential determinism presupposes the study of the language of any living being, whereas anthropocentrism presupposes the study of human language only. Thus, anthropocentrism is a special case of bioessential determinism. Language as a system is a legacy of systemic structuralism. According to the authors, the bioessential deterministic paradigm is what makes linguistics psycholinguistics.

anthropocentrism, the anthropocentric paradigm, bioessential deterministic paradigm, bioessential determinism, bioessentialism, the system-structural paradigm, Declaration of consciousness, the language of animals, language, mind