Concept
Terminology
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The third component element of a philosophical language, therefore, is that there shall be a name for every Kind. In other words, there must not only be a terminology, but also a nomenclature. The words Nomenclature and Terminology are employed by most authors almost indiscriminately; Dr. Whewell being, as far as I am aware, the first writer who has regularly assigned to the two words different meanings. The…
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
Names Terminology several times; states what Terminology is.
This path which it follows to knowledge, the path from the general to the particular, distinguishes it from ordinary rational knowledge; therefore, systematic form is an essential and characteristic feature of science. The combination of the most general concept-spheres of every science, that is, the knowledge of its first principles, is the indispensable condition of mastering it; how far we advance from these to…
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
Close in meaning to Terminology; the term itself is not named.
The physical classification of particulars collects together all those that are aspects of one "thing." Given any one particular, it is found often (we do not say always) that there are a number of other particulars differing from this one in gradually increasing degrees. Those (or some of those) that differ from it only very slightly will be found to differ approximately according to certain laws which may be…
Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind
Close in meaning to Terminology; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Terminology
Related ideas
- Word
- Interdisciplinarity
- Translation
- Ontology
- Linguistics
- Classification
- Social epistemology
- Human
- Concept
- Compound (linguistics)
Place in the tradition
Part of History of philosophy in Poland.