SEMANTIC FILTER
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 2995 ▶ |
| Object type | Discipline oriented, Epistemology, ontology or semantics |
G.L. FARRE states: “A semantic filter results form the projection of a semantic matrix onto some corresponding type of observation space ”(1998b, p. 266)
For example, while the semantic matrix of the meteorologist and the one of the climatologist have many common features, they differ:
1-by the time dimension of their research
2-by the way they interconnect the results of their observations
FARRE expresses this in the following sentence: “Thus construed (Note:i.e. on the base of a specific semantic matrix mediating into a specific language by a syntax), the semantic filter effectively defines the universe of discourse U of the language, which is the domain of what the language is about, what it describes and what the operational end of the semantic filter is designed to probe: the observations are thus theory laden” (p. 267)