The Metamoment as a Space Before Form: An Ancient Philosophical Dialogue Between the Metalogy of the Moment, Plato, Aristotle, and Stoic Philosophy

This article examines the concept of the metamoment as the first component in the architecture of passage within the author’s system of the Metalogy of the Moment. The metamoment is defined as an objective transitional state between a completed event and a not-yet-formed new moment. This state no longer fully belongs to the previous event, yet it has not yet become a recognized, named, and consciously grasped moment.

In order to philosophically articulate the concept of the metamoment, the article enters into dialogue with three lines of ancient thought: Plato’s concept of chōra as a space before form, Aristotle’s distinction between potentiality and actualization, and the Stoic doctrine of impression and assent. These three philosophical lines make it possible to consider the metamoment as a receptive space, as the possibility of a new moment prior to its actualization, and as the domain before assent, judgment, and action.

At the same time, the article does not identify the Metalogy of the Moment with ancient philosophical systems. Rather, it demonstrates that the Metalogy of the Moment introduces an independent authorial concept: the metamoment as a transitional zone of human passage in which the consequence of an event has not yet received a name, a role, a vector, or an action.