The textbook gives the special hypothetical example of Hayawan-e-Natiq (“rational animal”) adopted as an individual’s full proper name. The constituent words have meanings that ordinarily belong to a definition of human; but in this naming use the speaker intends identification of one person, not division of that person into two semantic components. It is a deliberately special example, different from using the same words as a definition.
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Fourth form: parts signify concepts, but that is not intended in naming
Simple and Composite Expressions: Definitions, Four Forms, and Examples
The textbook gives the special hypothetical example of Hayawan-e-Natiq (“rational animal”) adopted as an individual’s full proper name. The constituent words have meanings that ordinarily belong to a definition of human; but in this naming use the speaker intends identification of one person, not division of that person into two semantic components. It is a deliberately special example, different from using the same words as a definition.