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China Terminology ›› 2024, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (1): 23-32.doi: 10.12339/j.issn.1673-8578.2024.01.004

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Empirical Terms and Theoretical Terms

Sergey Dmitrievich SHELOV1(), Translated by DONG Hongjing2()   

  • Received:2023-03-07 Revised:2023-05-19 Online:2024-01-05 Published:2023-11-14

Abstract:

The article aims to compare theoretical and empirical terms from a linguistic perspective, revealing the characteristics of theoretical and empirical terms in the terminology. Theoricity is a hierarchical attribute, and a term can be more or less theoretical, even the minimum degree of its theoricity means it is not entirely empirical. Empiricism of a term implies its perception and assimilation through any non-verbal (verbal) assimilation and explanation of it. These provisions cover terminology of various sciences and fields of knowledge, including the humanities.

Key words: theoretical term, empirical term, division criteria of terms, Russian terminology