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Discover LudwigThe word "exemplification" is correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used in order to illustrate a point or to provide an example of something. For example, “This poem is an exemplification of the beauty of nature.”
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exemplification
noun
The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
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So, likeness amounts to shared-property exemplification.
Another alternative to exemplification is representation.
There is an analogy here with the theory of universals and the problem of exemplification.
As is the case for Goodman's analysis of depiction, with regard to exemplification and expression in art, too, one wonders whether Goodman's claims are meant to provide an exhaustive account of such notions, and not rather just a very general, structural, analysis of them.
More specific claims, such as that expression and exemplification are relative, like the analogous claim regarding representation, prompt questions on the necessity, for Goodman, to recognize naturalistic constraints on what can be exemplified or expressed or represented by what.
More importantly, when we examine specific cases, it appears unclear whether the distinction between exemplification in general and expression in particular has been well drawn.
Exemplification is for Goodman a common and yet, philosophically, unrecognized form of reference.
Denotation and exemplification are the two fundamental forms of reference out of which Goodman develops most of his analysis.
Young's argument focuses on the notion of exemplification which he locates at the heart of the only kind of semantic representation and cognitive value that can be ascribed to artworks such as conceptual ones.
If Davidsonian event predication is part of the antecedent of a conditional, exemplification may come in more than once when determining the situations the conditional quantifies over.
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Second, there are perplexities raised by self-exemplification. Surely, some properties seem to exemplify themselves.
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