Examplification and Ediction

'Ediction' means 'speaking out', so every utterance, to some extent or another, is an instance of Ediction, an 'edict' being only a familiar and dramatic type. Ediction is a special case of Examplification, i. e. it formulates a private thought, feeling, etc. in general terms, which is as much as to say that saying is a kind of doing. However, framing the relation between doing and saying as Examplification-Ediction resolves a chronic problem in Language theory that even Language-Game and Speech-Act models do not avoid. That is, even reducing saying to doing still maintains the traditional meaning-word heterogeneity, i. e. the content of a saying remains irreducible to the doing of the saying. In contrast, Ediction is a significant special mode of Examplification. The latter expands the Individual, and what is sometimes underappreciated about Language is that, despite its limitations, utterance is perhaps the most intricate of human performances, and, hence, the activity through which one can attain to one's widest scope, as an edict illustrates. In other words, Ediction is the most Examplifying of Examplifications.