Anti-Semantics II: Propositions, Analytical Routes, and Problems Addressed

Anti-Semantics II addresses a recurrent problem in theories of meaning and interpretation: distinct analytical positions are often compressed into a single event called reading, understanding, interpretation, or explanation. A reaction may be treated as already meaningful, a trace as containing its own interpretation, local trackability as proof, an explanation as identical with its object, or the absence of proof as permission for unrestricted interpretation. These conflations make it difficult to identify where disagreement, substitution, error, supplementation, or institutional fixation has actually occurred. The work resolves this problem by separating the analytical positions involved in the passage from a locally followable difference to meaning, explanation, understanding, acceptance, and preservation. It distinguishes physical response from trace, trace from readability, readability from established reading, established reading from proof, reading from interpretation, interpretation from explanatory substitution, and explanation from the configuration explained. This route is not presented as a causal chain, temporal sequence, psychological process, or developmental theory of meaning. It is a structured series of non-identities. Its purpose is to show which operations are tacitly introduced when an apparently direct route from trace to meaning, reading to explanation, machine output to understanding, or model to reality is asserted. This paper is an English orientation to the Japanese work Anti-Semantics II. It is not an English edition and does not establish definitive English equivalents for the principal technical terms of the Japanese text.