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

19 dual semantic theory which claims that we have a formal mode for determining a terms extension as well as an informal heuristic mode (Putnam, 1975; Armstrong et al., 1983; McNamara & Sternberg, 1983). The concept of ownership was analyzed in terms of plausible attributes or criteria. Empirical data were sought which might indicate which criteria were entailed by ownership (Miller, 1978), and to what degree (Watanabe, 1969; McNamara & Sternberg, 1983). Empirical data were acquired by two different methods: one by engaging the subjects in an ownership task in which their intensional criteria might be implicit and heuristic, and another by having subjects make explicit formal judgements as to the definitive worth of criteria in differentiating owhers from non-owners. Operationally, the goal was to obtain rank orderings of the relevance of various criteria of ownership by both the formal explicit and the informal implicit methods. Consistent with the exploratory nature of an initial study, an extensive list of plausible criteria for ownership was compiled in a relatively atheoretical manner. Following Cohen's (1954) lead, plausible criteria of amenshis were whatever explanations or evidence might reasonably be put forward to support a claim of ownership. From law, for example, Epstein (1979) discussed ownership by first possession, by right to destroy, by ownership of self. and

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