单词 | semantic primitive |
释义 | > as lemmassemantic primitive semantic primitive n. a word or phrase regarded as innately understood, but indefinable and not further analysable into smaller components of meaning. ΚΠ 1959 C. W. Churchman & P. Ratoosh Measurem. iv. 87 A language without semantic primitives has many obvious advantages, besides more realistically reflecting the actual operations of measurement (where nothing is simple to understand or to perform). 1996 A. Wierzbicka Semantics: Primes & Universals ii. 81 The hypothesis that see is a universal semantic primitive is consistent with the view widespread across cultures that there is a special relationship between seeing and knowing. 2007 A. Gladkova in A. C. Schaley & D. Khlentzos Mental States II. 64 If one can show that a concept cannot be defined further via other simpler concepts, it should be accepted as a semantic primitive. < as lemmas |
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