12/20/2024

I just noticed that there are cases that may have been an opportunity for the use of footnotes; however, the thing is that my use of qualifying round-bracket parentheses, which I rank above the comma parenthesis and the dash parenthesis in terms of providing syntactical padding or distance, are distinct from footnotes.

I would rank it as the following:

1. Comma parentheses are part and parcel of the sentences themselves, so I would more so refer to them as attached reservations to otherwise absolute or easily misunderstandable statements. Thus, one can view them as natural protrusions in the analogical form of branches of the trunk of the tree.
2. Dash parentheses, as denoted by —, carry the goal of emphasis; however, I have used them much as a comma when there is a need to rank the punctuations. There are cases where the use of commas suffices, but as the level of nesting increases, I re-order sentences so as to allow for the use of commas, colons, and dashes to clarify the overall nested sentence structure. This can be seen in following example: "A world is critical; however, with sufficient reservations, we can understood it more better as an ecosystem. Through further terminology, we can qualify the idea of this 'world' and can create much needed ranked distance and space through segmentation. The ecosystem, as a way to signify a 'world' in more specific terms, demands then also its constituent parts, from which we may gather, by pillar of critical establishment, a greater whole that would have otherwise been absolute. Thus we can consider well these ecosystem-pillaring references for example: bogs, swamp, marsh, morass, moor, fen, turf moss, peat moss, and quagmire, all of which—though sometimes more or less accurately discriminated—are often used interchangeably, or are perhaps employed, each exclusively, in a particular district. This alone is enough in showing the challenge of defining the nomenclature of geographical features that would, if divorcing from the particularities of each ecosystem, forest, or world, otherwise settle in broader emanations (such as the nested hierarchy of 'ecosystem' and 'world')."
3. Round-bracket parentheses serve the function of qualifying specific terms or sentences while bypassing the limitations of structured speech, which may be observed in the form of the use of the term "which" or other introductions of relative clauses, which may form forcibly against the ceiling of the nested hierarchy of ideas of a sentence if left alone. Imagine it as a thief that avoids the rules and standards upon which economy is based and made "silhouetted" (systematic "haunting" [so as to indicate a topological "hauntology"] outlining).

As you can see, it is not so clear cut, and I would rather avert troubling myself with delineating brackets and curly brackets as well; in addition, there exists an infinite series of exemplifying forms of parentheses to be drawn. For those reasons, I believe the aforesaid three-tier ranking of parenthesis and its implied relationship to the use of the more distanced footnotes, which, I can now describe, occupy a space that is parallel but split apart so as to make the connection much more peripheral or lateral rather than restrictively (essentially) clausal, and which may be viewed as an advanced form of parenthesis themselves, are enough. In other words, just like round brackets, footnotes bypass the limitations of structured speech, but in the form of an almost external commentary that retains its key relationship with the undisturbed main text, an aside that produces just as greatly, but which avoids the traps of being another discursion by the same author (even if it is actually from the same author [but, in so using it does the approach of the productive, self-distanced "third party" find purchase, a fiction of qualification forestalling an otherwise prattling self-unaware case of authorship]). To extend this "playground," I would compare the spirit of the just-described footnotes to that of autocritical elaborations in the appearance of separate passages. I have written such passages innumerable times myself when I analyzed my own passages alongside AI language models and pretended to be a reader of my own works, introducing interpretations that would otherwise remain absent in the economy of the main text, and which, by external reference, buttress such discursive economy.