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| Autor/in | Abbott, Barbara |
|---|---|
| Titel | Nondescriptionality and Natural Kind Terms. |
| Quelle | (1986), (12 Seiten)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
| Schlagwörter | Concept Formation; Epistemology; Language Processing; Language Research; Linguistic Theory; Semantics |
| Abstract | English, and presumably any natural language, contains a small group of expressions referring to species of things found in nature. These species are defined by their internal structure, determined by genetics in the case of living things and by chemical or physical properties in the case of others. The reference of these terms is determined by these properties, but the properties are not semantically associated with the terms in question because the terms were introduced before science discovered the internal structure properties. Therefore, some of the terms are nondescriptional. Two theorists, Kripke and Putnam, have shown that in the case of this group of natural kind terms, humans let the natural essence or properties function as Locke's nominal essence, or sense. This is supported by evidence from a study of language use in ten-year-olds. However, this class of terms is smaller than was previously thought, and some questions about it remain, including the function of nondescriptional terms within the language, possible grammatical correlates of nondescriptionality, the relationship between descriptionality and decompositionality, and learnability. (MSE) |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
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