Natural-kind Terms
发布时间:2018年06月01日
发布人:nanyuzi  

Natural-kind Terms

自然类名

 

In the semantic analysis of nouns, a type of general term for entities which have an identity in nature (as opposed to artefactual, abstract and other general terms). They include some sortal terms (e.g. lion), where a notion of individuation is involved, and some mass terms (e.g. water), where there is no such notion.

 

对名词作语义分析时,指一类所指实体有自然身份的通名(对立于人造的、抽象的和其他通名)。包括种属名(如lion“狮子”),涉及个性化的概念;还包括物质名词(如water“水”),不涉及个体化。