Semantics of ownership

Rudmin, Floyd W.

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Document type:: Book

Collection:: POP - Possession, Ownership, Property

Title:: Semantics of ownership: a study based on free recall and on explicit judgements

Author:: Rudmin, Floyd W.

Year of publication:: 1983

Language:: English

Subject:: Besitz Eigentum

Topic:: C - Psychology

Shelfmark:: C/R916

Access:: Free access

| & Purpose How these semantic concerns relate to the purposes of the present study can be illustrated by an example. The extension of ‘Things that I own' includes my car. When I affirm that it is true that I own my car, I must use semantic intensional knowledge about the verb 'to own’, There are a great many features or attributes describing personal relationships to the car, some of which are plausible criteria for ownership. For example, I paid for it and possess its keys. I need it, use it, and take care of it. It's registered in my name and parked in my backyard. When I affirm ownership, I may be using some rule-of-thumb, such as the territorial heruistic mentioned earlier, or I might be referring to my possession of the keys or the registration. It is possible that I use some weighted combination of these ownership criteria. However, in circumstances of disputed claims to the car, affirmation that I own the car would probably be based on more formal exact intensional processing, possibly involving legal advice, The concept of ownership could be said to entail those criteria that apply most regularly in each of the semantic modes. There would be degrees of entailment, with some criteria being more weighted than others. Thus, in semantic terms, the goal of the present study was to examine the semantic intension of ownership, using a

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