| 单词 |
sortal |
| 释义 |
ˈsortal, a. (and n.)
[f. sort n.2 + -al1.]
Of or belonging to a particular sort or kind. Also as n.
1690Locke Hum. Und. iii. iii. (1695) 231 That abstract Idea, which the General, or Sortal (if I may have leave so to call it from Sort, as I do General from Genus) Name stands for. 1959P. F. Strawson Individuals v. 168, I shall draw a rough distinction..between two kinds of non-relational tie which bind particulars and universals. This is the distinction between sortal and characterizing universals. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Feb. 215/3 The orthodox Fregean and Russellian view that the sortals ‘man’, ‘woman’, ‘cat’ are predicables and not names. 1980D. Wiggins Sameness & Substance 7 Any predicate whose extension consists..of all the particular things or substances of one particular kind, say horses, or sheep, or pruning knives, will be called here a sortal predicate. |
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