Term
Nominalization
used in 13 texts across the archive
“Divination is human imagination, and the way we do that now is primarily through nominalization, which creates new objects. Look at what happened above: the verbs “do” and “happen” morphed into the nouns “doings” and “happenings,” and this happened as soon as it became possible to examine the relationship between them.”
In use
“A nominalization is “redeemed” in the same way, through the organization of “congregants” who can generate ostensives singularizing the nominalization.”
“We could construct paths to nominalization producing these concepts, which are metaphors drawn from machinery and statistics.”
“Even “thought” is such a nominalization of the verb “think”—we can have “thoughts,” but there is also a whole world of “thought,” with its own history.”
Key texts