Logos

CLASScls.spa.numeral

numeral

A word that names a number, either counting the members of a set, ordering one of them, multiplying a quantity, or dividing a whole.

Four sub-classes divide the numeral by what the number is used for, and they behave differently enough that no single agreement statement covers all four: one sub-class is almost entirely invariable, one agrees like an adjective, one agrees in number alone, and one is largely nominal. What the four share is that the word contributes a quantity rather than a property, which is what separates a numeral from the adjective it otherwise resembles in position and in inflection. The class is marked open although three of its four sub-classes are closed, and the reason is the fourth: a fraction with a denominator above ten is minted by a suffix that has no ceiling, so declaring the parent closed would assert something false about a stretch of it that is genuinely productive. The stock of stems the whole system is built from is nonetheless finite, and it is that stock, not the set of expressions, that the sub-class rosters enumerate.

statusstatus
documentedasserted, and the sources agree
provenanceprovenance
authoredwritten for Logos, from first principles
derivation statusderivation_status
unstatednobody has said whether it follows from anything
saliencesalience
No salience. Where no frequency source applies the object carries none, rather than a default or a guess (03-schema.md §3.5).
aliasesaliases
  • metalanguagenumeral
  • metalanguagecls.es.numeral
sourcessources
An empty list, which is an assertion: this rests on nothing external, and somebody checked. It is not the same as nobody having looked.

Openness and membership

class.openness

Whether the class can be listed at all, and whether its members are written down or worked out.

opennessopenness
opennew members keep arriving, so no list of them is ever finished
membershipmembership
storedthe members are enumerated one by one

Confusable with

class.confusable

Objects a reader is likely to mix up with this one, and the difference that separates them. The edge is symmetric and stored once, so this renders on both objects' pages from the one statement.

  • CLASSadjetivocls.spa.adjetivodocumented

    what tells them aparta numeral contributes a quantity and cannot be graded or intensified, while an adjective contributes a property and can be

Everything joined to this object

One group per typed edge, in both directions. A1b guarantees no object node is an orphan, so this is the whole navigation: an object with no edges would have failed the build rather than reached this page.

What this object is a kind of

Walking this object's own `is-a` edges: what it is a kind of. Several branches from one object are several classification axes, not competing supertypes.

objects
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places drawn
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multi-parent
None in this view. This subgraph happens to be a tree, which the explorer draws as one without assuming it is one.

dimensions in viewnumeral-type

  • CLASSnumeralcls.spa.numeralCLASS

    A word that names a number, either counting the members of a set, ordering one of them, multiplying a quantity, or dividing a whole.

Siblings are listed by name, then by id to break ties. That is a display choice made here and not an order the graph asserts.

Fan-out per dimension

A4

One row per dimension, largest first. That is a display order, not a verdict: 03-schema.md declares no threshold above which fan-out is too much, so this reports the count and grades nothing.

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  • finiteness2 values
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  • polarity2 values
  • switch-reference2 values

What kinds of this object there are

Walking the `is-a` edges that point at this object: what kinds of it there are. An object reachable two ways is drawn in both places and is still one object.

objects
5
places drawn
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multi-parent
None in this view. This subgraph happens to be a tree, which the explorer draws as one without assuming it is one.

dimensions in viewnumeral-type

Siblings are listed by name, then by id to break ties. That is a display choice made here and not an order the graph asserts.

is-a

edges.is-a

subsumption

these are kinds of this object

has-a

edges.has-a

the parent carries this

these carry this object