Ministry of the higher and secondary special education of the republic of uzbekistan state world languages university

 
 
A philosophical view of synonymy is that the language is “subordinated” 
to spoken language, and spoken language is “subordinated” to mental language. 
The terms of mental language are concepts, its propositions are mental 
judgments. Whereas the signification of terms in spoken and written language is 
purely conventional and can be changed, hence in English we say ‘
dog
’ whereas 
in Latin it is ‘
canis
’), the signification of terms (concepts) in mental language is 
established by nature once and for all. 
Concepts “naturally signify” what they are concepts of, this “natural 
signification” is thought of as a kind of representation relation, based on the fact 
that concepts are in some way “naturally similar” to their objects. This 
arrangement provides an account of synonymy and equivocation in spoken and 
written language. Two terms (whether from the same or different spoken/written 
languages) are 
synonymous
if and only if they are subordinated to the same 
concept, a single given term of spoken/written language is 
equivocal
if and only 
if it is subordinated to more than one concept simultaneously. 
Word-Net, an electronic lexical database, is considered to be the most 
important resource available to researchers in computational linguistics, text 
analysis, and many related areas. Word-Net has been under development since 
1985 by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University under the 
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Carnap, R. Meaning and Necessity (Second edition) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956.- p. 59 

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direction of Professor George A. Miller.
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Its design is inspired by current 
psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory.