Chromatic Representation of Ontological Attributes: Colour-Based Phraseology in the Light of Ramon Llull’s Ars Magna

In 1937, Jorge Luis Borges looked back some 650 years at Ramon Llull"s great arts which includes an ars inveniendi that inspired rational speculation ever since. Along with five essays that look though the lens of Borges at contemporary learning machines, this research paper adapts Llull"s approach to offer a linguosemiotic analysis of English colour-based phraseological units. The aim of the work is to identify the mechanisms by which sacral chromatic codes are transformed into the pragmatic meanings of English idioms, and to establish typological patterns in the transition from the metaphysical attributes of the Absolute to the empirical linguistic picture of the world. The object of the study is the chromatic encoding of nine attributes of the Absolute, represented in the form of a mandala-like diagram with the central symbol «A'. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that English colour phraseology is examined for the first time not in isolation, but through the lens of a specific combinatorial-logical model (Llull's circles), which allows us to reveal the deep mechanisms underlying the transfer of transcendent categories into the pragmatics of everyday language. We thereby show that the English language, refracting the ideal Llullian spectrum through the prism of utilitarian pragmatism and anthropocentric experience, creates a semantically contradictory picture of the world in which transcendent attributes undergo reduction, inversion, or functionalisation.