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Abstraction: Subsumption of objects by non-consideration of certain properties. See also equivalence relation, concretion, concreta, indiscernibility._____________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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John Lyons on Abstraction - Dictionary of Arguments
Gärdenfors I 129 Abstraction/Lyons/Gärdenfors: Lyons (1977)(1) distinguishes three fundamental "orders". 1. Physical Objects 2. Events, processes, states 3. Proposition, schemata, ("outside of space and time"). I 130 Identity/Lyons: this has important consequences: one can say, for example, that the same moose was in the garden yesterday - but not: e.g. the same storm destroyed the garden again today. >Order, >Levels of description, >Grammar, >World/thinking, >Language, >Representation, >Processes, >States, >Propositions. 1. John Lyons, Semantics. Cambridge, 1977. pp. 443-445,_____________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. |
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 Gä I P. Gärdenfors The Geometry of Meaning Cambridge 2014 |