Exemplification
Exemplification (Latin: explanation, proof through examples ) is a term from the field of logical semantics and, in Goodman's usage, forms the counter-term to denotation .
According to Nelson Goodman, objects exemplify certain properties, for example a cake in the window of a pastry shop, its design, ingredients, etc., but not every object exemplifies each of its properties. The cake in the shop window exemplifies z. B. not their energy, sugar or fat content etc.
A work of art also exemplifies certain properties. So exemplified z. B. a gray sky and pale colors dreary and hopelessness. Put simply, exemplification is an interpretation process.
In Goodman's parlance, a predicate such as B. "is green" a number of subjects of fulfillment, such. B. {frog, grass, leaf, apple etc.}. The entirety of the subjects of fulfillment is called the extension . "P denotes x" and "x is the subject of fulfillment of y" are therefore synonymous expressions.
literature
Goodman, Nelson: Languages of Art . Draft of a symbol theory. Translated by Bernd Philippi. Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp 1997. (= stw 1304)