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SEMANTIC ANALYSIS: METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS

Basic Definitions

 

There are the following classes of terms distinguished in Semantic Analysis  with various application spheres:

 

  • Notions - determined by end contents, have qualitative and quantitative restrictions (for example, any restricted set, vector)

  • Ultimate notions - the ones that have a set limit that can not be practically applied to them (for instance, the line of “motivational vector” as a certain direction).

  • Categories -  the ones that have only qualitative definitions (requirement, motive)

  • Ultimate categories that indicate, for example the subject of evolution who generates qualities and is not reduced to them, but juxtaposed to reality.

 

Besides, such a linguistic term as "absolute" is used. It can not be included in any term class, because it can not be contrasted to anything.

 

The immediate reality that we experience, given to us in shape of emotions and sensations, is defined as subjective reality. This is a reality experienced by a specific subject, and it is determined by some conditions of his existence (physical, biological, social and other). We correlate these conditions with a specific frame of reference (governing an individual) which is specified in a subject space that describes the corresponding subject reality. Subjectivity can be defined as a large set of reference systems equivalent in terms of certain transformations that take place in the subject space.

 

Any admissible reference frame, given in a subject reality determines subjective reality as a reality of a specific subject who perceives and experiences subject reality in specific conditions. In classical science it is interpreted as "the first signal system" that informs us of the corresponding "outside" object reality.

 

Object reality is cognitively (mentally) shaped by the subject in the second signal system as an outside source of any subjective reality (in classical science it is called "objective reality").

 

From the point of view of Semantic Analysis, there is one notion that can be contrasted to object reality. It is the mental map, in which objects are described not only through their meanings, as in classical science, but also through their sense, that is the requirements and motives of subject or "subjectness".

 

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