Generalized description and referential meaning of typical childlike situations comparable to sacrifice


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The article discusses the issues regarding the essence of what the reality referring to typical childlike situations similar to sacrifice, and the ways the names and descriptions of behavior types differ from these types as per se. The description of lexical meanings via the semantic metalanguage and the description of typical linguistic and other cultural forms based on prototypes do not contradict each other, since they solve different problems. Consequently, generic descriptions of typical childlike situations comparable to sacrifice are lexical meanings of the short names of typical situations, constructed in metalanguage on the basis of an intuitive understanding of their similarity, existing as artefacts of text analysis, while the typical situations and forms of childlike behavior comparable to sacrifice are real-life objective forms of behavioral situations and biological, cultural and social predispositions to certain typical forms of behavior.

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Andrei E. Serikov

Samara National Research University

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Email: aeserikov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4213-8089

Candidate of Philosophy, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Philosophy Department

Russian Federation, 34, Moskovskoe shosse, Samara, 443086, Russian Federation

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