ABSTRACT
It is argued that evolution goes beyond that which can be described in a well-defined language, and that it instead enforces a language that is itself evolving. Evolution is the unfolding of this self-reference. The unfolding methodology of the logician Alfred Tarski is taken as a basis for the explicability of evolution. Looking at Tarski’s results as a linguistic complementarity, we get a view with the productivity of this complementarity as the source of evolutionary phenomena. These extend to the biological domain upon recognition of life as an autolinguistic phenomenon.
