opodstatnnost
Opodstatnnost is a theoretical notion in linguistics and philosophy of language used to describe the degree to which a statement carries substantive content beyond what is entailed by context or background knowledge. It is intended to capture how much information a sentence adds that is not predictable from the discourse situation.
The term appears to be a neologism drawing on Slavic roots related to substance and foundation. In
Operational approaches typically combine judgments of informativeness, contextual independence, and assertional necessity. Examples help illustrate the
The concept intersects with related ideas such as informativeness, substantive content, and pragmatics, and it is