Opposite and Ambiguity

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SENSE RELATIONS (2) OPPOSITENESS AND DISSIMILARITY OF SENSE AND AMBIGUITY I. INTRODUCTIN There are two core investigations of sense relations promoted by James R. Hurford, Brendan Heasley, & Smith (2007). The first is IDENTITY AND SIMILARITY OF SENSE and the second one is OPPOSITENESS AND DISSIMILARITY OF SENSE AND AMBIGUITY. This paper discusses about sense relations on the second side. II. SENSE AND SENSE RELATION, ANALYTIC, SYNTHETIC, CONTRADICTION Before I discuss further about oppositeness and dissimilarity of sense and ambiguity, I want to review some terms had close relation with this subject such as Sense and Sense Relation, Analytic, Synthetic and Contradiction. 1. Sense and Sense Relation James R. Hurford, Brendan Heasley, and Smith ( 2007) defines sense as a semantic relationships among expressions in the language. Saeed (2009) states that “the semantic links between elements within the vocabulary system is an aspect of sense”. In finding out the sense of a word we need to have references or thought, a symbol or word and a referent or thing as proposed by Ogden and Richards (1946, p. 11). In fact, in daily conversation the words like meaning or mean could be a representation of reference or sense itself (James R. Hurford et al., 2007, p. 33). Therefore, in easy way we can say that either word-meaning or reference can indicate sense of an expression. Since there are a lot of words in a language with their own senses, a vocabulary constructing is needed to get the connection might be occurred among them. The connection between two or more senses is called Sense Relation. Cruse (2000, p. 145) states that “sense relation is a semantic relation between units of meaning” and the important of sense relation is in the way we form the vocabulary of a language to see their relationship. e.g. dog vs banana (has no relation) dog vs animal (has

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