I was stuck on this for a long time but I now believe the answer is:
- Within a hierarchy of word categories that surround the word in a particular semantic frame. The location of a word in this hierarchy is thoroughly analogous to how numbers are located in smaller and smaller half intervals of [0,1]. But words by themselves are not infinitely subdivisible.
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I imagined an article called "How do we take the measure of a word? - An analogy between words and spatial points."
ReplyDeleteFirst sentence: The reason an analogy between words and points is of interest is because, once established, it sets the stage for applying geometric ideas to the study of language.