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sortal

adj

Etymology

From sort + -al. Coined by John Locke in 1690 in his An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

  1. derived from sortem
  2. derived from sorte
  3. inherited from sort
  4. suffixed as sortal — “sort + al”

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to a sort, or kind.

  2. Having the character of a sortal.

    • The possession of sortal concepts is a prerequisite for philosophers like Wiggins or Lowe in determining the nature and extent of our referential capacities.

  3. A type of universal that defines a particular sort of object

    • And central to this notion is the distinction, among semantic types of g-words, between sortals on the one hand and non-sortal general-character-specifiers on the other

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sortal. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA