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  <Title>An Approach to Non-Singular Terms in Discourse</Title>
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5. Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we presented a new approach to representing vari ous kinds of non-singular concepts in natural language as the Theory of Names and Descriptions. -I-he major observation of the Theory is that reality, as perceived by an intelligent individual, can be regarded as a partially ordered structure of levels such that each level contains only those objects which are considered relatively singular Observe t To be precise we should represent Mary as (M l) here. i.e.. as an instance of the L 41 object M at some I E T. However. our nanling convention discussed in section 3 allows for replacing lhe definite description by a new name at the level L 0. We shall utilize this option here.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1">  that there are virtually no restrictions imposed upon the notion of relative singularity so that the distribution of objects between levels of the world model may differ among different individuals. Non-singular objects, called superobjects, are placed at a number of higher levels which are related to the current level with various coordinates Conversely. a singular object may be decomposed along a coordinate.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> and new objects, so obtained, will be placed at some lower level. This same coordinate can be used then to obtain instances of other objects at this lower level, so that the relative singularity of objects within each level is maintained For more details concerning various aspects of tile theory the reader is referred to \[8\] and \[g\]</Paragraph>
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