Timeline for Plural form of "semantics"
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| May 2, 2021 at 18:52 | comment | added | Peeja | "A semantic" is a single unit of semantic meaning that could be attached to something. "A semantics" is a scheme of such semantics, generally in an academic or information sciences setting. For instance, here's a philosophical logic paper from 1979 titled, "On When a Semantics is Not a Semantics: Some Reasons for Disliking the Routley-Meyer Semantics for Relevance Logic": jstor.org/stable/30227176 | |
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| Sep 22, 2017 at 12:24 | comment | added | D.F.F | You said yourself that I cannot use it to refer to a countable quantity, but that is what I need to do. My question is how to solve that exact problem (if possible) | |
| Sep 22, 2017 at 12:06 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | I'm trying to understand the comment above. If you want a plural for semantics then since semantics is already plural, why don't you just use it? | |
| Sep 22, 2017 at 11:58 | comment | added | D.F.F | where did I say that? | |
| Sep 22, 2017 at 11:50 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | So you're saying the dictionary you linked to is wrong, and it's not really plural, but often treated as singular? | |
| Sep 22, 2017 at 11:42 | comment | added | D.F.F | No! That is just the problem I am trying to solve ;) I use "semantics" if I speak about one semantics, which I think is correct and I am at peace with. However, I would like to use a word like "semantices" in those cases I speak about several (countable) semantic(e)s. Problem is that such a word doesn't exist. | |
| Sep 22, 2017 at 11:36 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | Ah, I got you. In the case of "one semantics" you are, as the dictionary you quote says, treating it as singular though the word is (as the dictionary you quote also says) plural. | |
| Sep 22, 2017 at 11:34 | comment | added | D.F.F | In fact semantics is countable in my case. I introduce four (4) completely different semantics (interpretations) of a formal language. I do not speak about different features of one semantics but of entirely different "ways of interpretation" (I want to use the term semantics for technical reasons). | |
| Sep 22, 2017 at 11:20 | history | answered | Jon Hanna | CC BY-SA 3.0 |