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| Form, philosophy: A. Form traditionally is an antonym of matter or content. Form is the structure or arrangement of something. It is the way that something is organized or composed. Form can be found in art, music, literature, architecture, nature and language. See also statue/clay, exterior/interior, Wholes, Parts, Dualism, Substance, Substrate, Change, Process.
B. In logic it comes to the form in which statements must be expressed in order to allow conclusions. See also Fine-grained/coarse-grained, Completeness, Theories, Systems, Formalism._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Ferdinand de Saussure on Forms - Dictionary of Arguments
Lyons I 58 Semantik/Saussure: Differences between languages are explained by the concept pair substance/form: Def Form/laguage/vocabulary/Saussure: Form of a vocabulary: is the abstract structure of relationships that a particular language imprints on the same underlying substance in each case.. Def Substance/language/Saussure: Set of thoughts and feelings common to humanity regardless of the language used. Lyons I 61f Form/language/modern linguistics/Saussure/Lyons: Language is not substance, but form. E.g., Chess: can be played with figures of any shape. Form/(s): From here means the relations, not the appearance. >Vocabulary, >Linguistics, >Meaning, >Word meaning, cf. >Chess._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
F. de Saussure I Peter Prechtl Saussure zur Einführung Hamburg 1994 (Junius) Ly II John Lyons Semantics Cambridge, MA 1977 Lyons I John Lyons Introduction to Theoretical Lingustics, Cambridge/MA 1968 German Edition: Einführung in die moderne Linguistik München 1995 |
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