The Meinongian trades logical and semantic simplicity for metaphysical abundance.
Of course, something else does count against this symbol's semantic simplicity, namely, that it is analyzable away in favour of talk of the actions of people, etc.
So, for example, it would not count against the semantic simplicity of the symbol 'Battle' as it figures in the sentence "Battle commenced" that it contains the orthographic part, "Bat," even though this part has a meaning of its own in other sentential contexts.
Let's say a given sentence presents us with a sequence of choices for every semantic unit; for simplicity's sake, let's say for every word.
There is semantic and logical simplicity at a metaphysical price.
This chapter discusses the desirable characteristics for any language to be used for conceptual modeling: expressibility, clarity, simplicity and orthogonality, semantic stability, semantic relevance, validation mechanisms, abstraction mechanisms, and formal foundation.
familiarity, concreteness, simplicity, meaningfulness, and semantic closeness.
Guessability of a sign varied with the five design features of; familiarity, concreteness, simplicity, meaningfulness, and semantic closeness of the sign.
Thirty Taiwanese and thirty Vietnamese, each group gender-balanced, participated in this experiment, which involved 5 design features (familiarity, concreteness, simplicity, meaningfulness, and semantic closeness), 4 types of traffic signs (warning, prohibition, auxiliary, and indicatory), and 3 training conditions (before training, immediately following training, and one month after training).
(We assume, for simplicity, that the semantic value of a predicate is the set of individuals that it applies to).
In another study of the effects of sign characteristics on training effectiveness, Chan and Ng (2010) failed to observe effects of familiarity, concreteness, simplicity, meaningfulness and semantic closeness.
