On the boundary semantics and differentiation forms

Abstract

The article studies origin and transformation of the boundary notion, demonstrates the difficulty of its definition. The work provides a historical overview of boundary semantics change in German language, investigates the notion history. The author shows the differentiation act to be a source of the philosophical thought in Antiquity, and a source of the scientific one in Modern time. The article investigates the transformation of the boundary philosophical semantics from the Antiquity to the present days. Special attention is devoted to boundary cultural aspects.