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Why Are All the Sets All the Sets?

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Necessitists about set theory think that the pure sets exists, and are the way they are, as a matter of necessity. They cannot explain why the sets (de rebus) are all the sets. This constitutes the Ur‐Objection against necessitism; it is the primary motivation cited by potentialists about set theory.
Tim Button
wiley   +1 more source

The role of metonymy and polysemy in academic and popular science literature

open access: yesCrossroads
Metonymy and polysemy in academic and popular science texts are useful linguistic phenomena that aid in interpreting complex specialised terms by capturing various meanings in scientific terminology.
Alla Gabidullina   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lexical Polysemy: Lexicographic Implications

open access: yesLinguistik Online, 2010
This paper intends to show the importance of having linguistic instruments, principally semantic ones, for determining the meaning of words with the greatest precision and, consequently, managing to meticulously establish the different meanings of a ...
Rafael García Pérez
doaj   +1 more source

Polysemy in Military Terminology

open access: yes, 2023
Polysemy, the phenomenon where a single term holds multiple related meanings, is a pervasive aspect of language. In military terminology, this complexity deepens, encompassing layers of historical, strategic, and technological dimensions.
Dilnoza Aminova
core  

Understanding Banter: A Systematic Review of Literature to Conceptualize the Behaviors That Characterize Banter

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Banter represents an interaction practice that is typical of many close social relationships with behaviors often ambiguous in nature and maybe aggressive. This review summarizes and synthesizes the literature on offline and online banter published between 2000 and 2022 to examine: (a) the behavioral and situational factors that characterize ...
Lucy R. Betts   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Expanded Model for Perceptual Norming: Insights From Japanese Ideophones

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Iconicity is inherently grounded in sensory experience, yet few studies investigate how sensory information is packaged in iconic words. We present perceptual strength ratings for Japanese ideophones, to ask how sensory information is encoded in this word class.
Bonnie McLean   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Semantic Approach of Polysemy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article is concerned with the linguistic semantic phenomenon of polysemy. Treated together with homonymy both represent quite complex linguistic phenomena, which deserves proper treatment.
DAIU, Sonila
core  

An Introduction to Rational Constructivism in Cognitive Development

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Rational constructivism is a contemporary theory of cognitive development. It proposes that children generate, tweak, and radically revise theories, beliefs, and representations by integrating evidence with existing knowledge via probabilistic inferential learning mechanisms.
Rebekah A. Gelpi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

CONSIDERATIONS SUR LA POLYSEMIE DES UNITES SYNTAXIQUES EN FRANÇAIS: APPROCHES DIDACTIQUES

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Umanistice, 2020
Sursele studiate ne permit să constatăm caracterul masiv al polisemiei în limbă. Acest fenomen se impune ca una dintre universaliile limbii. Drept dovadă convingătoare servesc multiplele dicţionare explicative ce atestă prezenţa unui număr imens de ...
Lidia MORARU
doaj  

On the polysemy of help [PDF]

open access: yesLexis, 2015
Le verbe help est hautement polysémique et certaines de ses acceptions semblent même contradictoires. Afin de comprendre comment cette polysémie s’est mise en place, nous proposons un retour en arrière commençant à la période élisabéthaine pour retrouver ce qui unit chaque sémantisme secondaire au sens originel de help.
openaire   +2 more sources

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