Semantic space: Difference between revisions

Many existing [[dictionaries]] present a limited, discrete list of related translations within each Toki Pona word's semantic space, without giving a clearer sense of the size and shape of the underlying meaning. The semantic space explanation is meant to avoid misconceptions with these definition lists by describing "the range of possible meanings of a word."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lipamanka.gay/|title={{tok|LIPUmanka}}|website={{tok|lipamanka}}.gay||author={{tok|[[lipamanka]]}}}}</ref>.<ref>{{cite web|url=//lipamanka.gay/essays/semantic-spaces|title=on the definitions of toki pona words|author={{tok|[[lipamanka]]}}|username=|date=|website=lipamanka.gay|publisher=|access-date=|quote=}}</ref> {{tok|[[lipamanka]]}} has created a dictionary that describes semantic spaces in full prose.<ref>{{cite lipamanka}}</ref>

In Toki Pona one word can't be mapped to a single point in this abstract space; rather, each word covers an area in that space such that individual points are inside of it or outside of it.{{Citationcitation needed|reason=Does this make sense of the abstraction or does it rest on a misunderstanding?}} The space each word covers doesn't have to be contiguous: it can be blotchy and broken up across multiple areas; and the spaces of two words can overlap with one another.{{Citationcitation needed|reason=Is there an example? Has this been mapped?}} Mapping this area gives us the "semantic space" of a Toki Pona word.