| 单词 | minimum vocabulary |
| 释义 | > as lemmasminimum vocabulary minimum vocabulary n. chiefly Philosophy (B. Russell's term for) the residual vocabulary of a body of knowledge after analysis, i.e. the set of words (or symbolic expressions) that are sufficient to express every proposition in that field (e.g. mathematics, logic, history, geography, or human experience in general) and such that no word in the vocabulary can be defined in terms of the other words in it; the ultimate object-vocabulary of any field of knowledge or beliefs. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > words collectively vocabulary > minimum minimum vocabulary1944 1944 B. Russell in P. A. Schilpp Philos. B. Russell 14 I mean by a ‘minimum vocabulary’ one in which no word can be defined in terms of the others. All definitions are theoretically superfluous, and therefore the whole of any science can be expressed by means of a minimum vocabulary for that science. 1953 Philos. Rev. 62 274 It might therefore be suggested that Russell's statements concerning the structures of brain events, light rays, and flashes of lightning are to be translated into statements utilizing only the terms of the minimum vocabulary. 1967 Encycl. Philos. VII. 243/1 If there are alternative minimum vocabularies, then a simple, undefined term in one mode of formulation may turn out to be definable in another. < as lemmas |
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