The term's linguistic nature as a factor of its cognitive-heuristic potential (as exemplified by the english geological terms)

Abstract

The linguistic nature of a scientific term is a factor of its cognitive-heuristic potential. Term is a linguistically systematized and motivated unit and has its cognitive and lexical prototypes; all these characters predetermine its functions of systematizing, modeling and prognosticating scientific knowledge.

Keywords

• термин
• научное знание
• языковая природа
• когнитивно-эвристический потенциал