What the English Language Knows About God

A WordNet semantic analysis of moral vocabulary structure

Methodology: Wu-Palmer semantic similarity via NLTK WordNet interface. All comparisons use the best-match across the first three synsets of each word pair. Scores range from 0 (no taxonomic relationship) to 1 (identical meaning). Privation analysis checks whether definitions contain the positive term or privation markers (absence of, lack of, without, not, departure from). Asymmetric dependence checks whether the positive term's definition references the negative.

Reproducibility: pip install nltk && python -c "import nltk; nltk.download('wordnet')" — then run any comparison with wn.synsets(word)[0].wup_similarity(wn.synsets(other)[0])

WHAT: semantic measurement HOW: WordNet taxonomy WHY: reader decides

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