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- Title
Selection Restrictions as Ultimate Presuppositions of Natural Ontology.
- Authors
Prandi, Michele
- Abstract
The combinatory restriction known in linguistics as 'selection restrictions' are generally assumed to be a kind of linguistic structures, either syntactic or semantic, or at best cognitive structures. The idea discussed in this paper is that selection restrictions, although relevant for the description of complex meanings of linguistic expressions, do not belong to the structure of either language or cognition in any reasonable sense. Instead, they are criteria for conceptual consistency. They form a layer of shared presuppositions that lie at the grounds of consistent human behaviour and therefore of consistent thought and expression and belong to a natural ontology shared far beyond the boundaries of a given linguistic community.
- Subjects
PRESUPPOSITION (Logic); ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS; COGNITIVE structures; LINGUISTICS
- Publication
Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy, 2016, Vol 35, Issue 1, p73
- ISSN
0167-7411
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1007/s11245-014-9280-5