UDC

81’373:811.161.1

DOI

10.37482/2687-1505-V076

Authors

Anna V. sakharova
National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod;
prosp. Gagarina 23, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russian Federation;
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5707-2281 e-mail: hanna.lazareva@gmail.com

Abstract

The article deals with the semantics of the adjective istinnyj (true) in scientific texts. Semantic changes of this lexeme were identified in various verified contexts. It is shown that in contexts describing a statement, istinnyj is a metacharacteristic of mathematical, not linguistic, statements (inequalities, functions, etc.). This adjective can have two meanings in contexts describing reality. The first meaning characterizes situations in which the true is hidden consciously or as a result of an error. This use contains an implicit assumption of the existence of some untrue knowledge. The second meaning indicates hidden features, characteristics that need to be made explicit. It is shown that the second meaning in scientific texts can change semantically: such contexts contain an implicit juxtaposition of the true and the calculated/model/averaged. We need to make an implicit assumption about the equality of the true and the empirical in order to properly understand such contexts. This change in the semantics of the lexeme istinnyj takes place as late as in the 1960s. There is no opposition between the calculated and the true in earlier texts. Moreover, there is a juxtaposition of the true and the empirical in some of the earlier contexts. We have to accept the presupposition of the equality of the empirical and the false in order to interpret such contexts properly.
For citation: Sakharova A.V. Semantic Changes in the Meaning of the Word Istinnyj (True) in Scientific Texts. Vestnik Severnogo (Arktichеskogo) federal’nogo universiteta. Ser.: Gumanitarnye i sotsial’nye nauki, 2021, no. 1, pp. 72–81. DOI: 10.37482/2687-1505-V076

Keywords

istinnyj (true), scientific discourse, scientific text, lexeme’s semantics, semantic changes in a lexeme

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