Re: (longish) Entropy and "semantic domain"

Nicholas Corduan (nickc@iquest.net)
Thu, 28 May 1998 15:08:15 -0500

Edar,

>concept. Greek is no different. This can be easily demonstrated by the
>Grecian concept of love. The Hellenistic concept of love is not, nor
>was it (in times of antiquity) expressed by one word. There are a
>number of words used to express the concept of love in Greek. The
>concept does not "consist of one word."

But is there *one concept* of "love," being written by several different
words in the Greek, or are there several different concepts expressed by
different words in the Greek, but translated with *one word* in the English?

>help us to understand and express the concept of righteousness. This

But is righteousness a concept or an English word? Just because we can
find someway of lumping lots of Greke words under the umbrella of a single
English word does not mean that we are dealing with multiple expressions in
Greek of a word which English more concisely lays out in a single word.

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