THE CATEGORY OF QUANTITY AND ITS ASPECTS

G. G. Galich,
Doctor of Philology, Professor, Dostoevsky Omsk State University,
55а Mira Ave., Omsk, 644077, Russian Federation ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3774-8269, SPIN-код 2396-0558, SCOPUS Autor ID: 57195973718, Researcher ID 0-9389-2015, РИНЦ ID 294257
e-mail: gggalich.2014@mail.ru

THE CATEGORY OF QUANTITY AND ITS ASPECTS

Introduction. The problem deals with the necessity of learning the structure of human knowledge about the world. This structure can consist of an organized set of categories, including the category of quanti- ty in its real, cognitive and language being. The aim of the study is the division of quantitative entities into the ontological, gnosiological and linguistic aspects by means of a new generalizing approach.

Materials and methods are based on the utterance, that linguistic structures provide a means of un- derstanding the human intelligence working, in this case – using the cognitive and pragmatic interpretation  of speech materials.

Results of the study contain the correlating between the theories of linguistic or related sciences and the outcome of an empiric study fulfilled by the author before. Ontological quantity reveals two subcatego- ries: countable and measurable things. The cognition of quantity involves four strategies: counting, measure, calculation and evaluating. Linguistic expression of quantity is divided into grammatical and lexical means.

Conclusions. Cognitive and pragmatic interpretation of speech materials can draw nearer the main structuring of human knowledge.

Keywords: knowledge structures, categories, quantity, ontology, gnosiology, linguistic structures, in- terpretation.

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