Thursday, August 3, 2023

"Neat" sentences v/s "fuzzy" sentences -

"Neat" sentences v/s "fuzzy" sentences - This is a short write-up. This is just to classify sentences into 2 kinds – Those whose semantic story can be built from their elements (words) step-by-step, and most often also with a clear-cut picture for each element, and those which cannot be built so. Consider this sentence - Peter is holding a basket in his hand. Here the whole story can be built part-by-part by attaching one new element (word) to the previous and that too with a clear picture for each. Peter is a clear entity. Then comes Peter's hand (attached to him). Then comes a basket. And then comes Peter's hand, on the handle of the basket. Now consider this - The two cars crashed against each other. This story cannot be built step-by-step from the constituent words of the sentence. You can begin by saying - there are 2 cars. But then the accident is understood by the cumulative gelled semantic effect of "crashed against each other". This cannot be split as {crashed + against + each + other} in a step by step semantic-cognition process. If at all one has to construct a story like the first-type above, of this sentence, then one might say - There is a car. Its front came to a point. There is another car. It came from the opposite side. It came with its front to the same point. Thus there was a collision of the 2 cars.

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