Lemma | determination |
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Categoria grammaticale | N |
Lingua | inglese |
Sigla | Hjelmslev (1961) |
Titolo | Prolegomena to a Theory of Language |
Sinonimi | |
Rinvii | constant (inglese) function (inglese) variable (inglese) |
Traduzioni | |
Citazioni | [...] just like the determination between the definitions [...], so also the determination between the operations can be viewed as a selection or as a specification. [...] we can define [...] ‘determination’ as a function between a constant and a variable [...]. A process and a system that belongs to it (“lies behind it”) together contract a function, which, depending on the point of view, may be conceived as a relation or as a correlation. A closer investigation of this function soon shows us that it is a determination in which the system is the constant: ‘the process determines the system’ [...] the existence of a system is a necessary premiss for the existence of a process [...]. Determination between terms in a process we call ‘selection’, and determination between terms in a system, ‘specification’. The unilateral dependences, in which the one term presupposes the other but not ‘vice versa’, we call ‘determinations’. |