sortal
1
9.9
- adjective
- /ˈsɔːrtəl/
- Specialized
:
clase
- To distinguish different types of flowers, it is important to use sortal categories like 'rose' and 'tulip'.
Examples
-
Their identity comes under different sortal concepts: 'material' and 'artifact'.
Blog text (17) -
What there can't be, according to Wiggins' account of 'identity under a sortal concept,' is two objects that both fall under the same sortal in the same place at the same time.
Blog text (17) -
What one would say about the reassembled ship is that, according to the criteria of identity for the sortal concept 'artifact', the ship came into existence when it was assembled.
Blog text (17) -
David Wiggins's explication of sortal dependency might appear to offer a final glimmer of hope for pluralist claims of sameness.
Academic text (2007) -
This is really a question, as I read it, about the notion of 'identity under a covering sortal concept' as discussed by David Wiggins in his book 'Sameness and Substance', which is based on his earlier monograph, 'Identity and Spatio-temporal Continuity'.
Blog text (17) -
It illustrates the point about identity under a sortal concept, which reinforces what Lowe says: the concept 'same artifact' supports the process of continuous repair and replacement, but not storage of parts and reassembly.
Blog text (17) -
In philosophy, a sortal term helps us identify objects by grouping them into specific categories.
-
Understanding the sortal properties of an item allows us to classify it correctly in different contexts.
Synonyms
6
7.5
Relating to the way scientists group and name living things
1
8.0
Relating to grouping things into types by shared features
1
8.2
About how people group plants, animals, or other things
To put things into groups by type
Relating to groups used to sort ideas, objects, or words
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sortal comes from the common word sort meaning 'kind' and the ending -al meaning 'related to'. So, a sortal adjective is about the 'kind' of something and helps classify or identify objects.