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| Engender a favorable or unfavorable attitude toward what is denoted by definiendum |
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| Assigns a meaning to a word by suggesting a theory that gives a certain characterization to entities term denotes |
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| Reduce vagueness of a word |
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| Used to report the meaning that a word already has in a language |
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| Assigns a meaning to a word for the first time |
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| Word or group of words supposed to be defined |
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| Word or group of words that does the defining |
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| term that denotes the empty call, no members (unicorns) |
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| A substitution instance having true premises and false conclusions |
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| Inductive argument that is weak, has one or more false premises, or both |
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| An inductive argument that is strong and has all true premises |
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| An argument in which the conclusion does not follow probably from the premises, even though it is claimed to |
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| Strong Inductive Argument |
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| It is improbable that the conclusion be false given that the premises are true |
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| Deductive argument that is invalid, has one or more false premises, or both |
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| A deductive argument that is valid and has all true premises |
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| Invalid deductive argument |
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| it is possible that the conclusion could be false given that the premises are true |
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| An argument in which it is impossible for the conclusion to be false given that the premises are true |
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| Proceeds from knowledge of a cause to a claim about an effect, ad reverse |
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| "all", "no", "some" premises |
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| "either... or" statements |
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| It is impossible for the conclusion to be false given that the premises are true |
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| Improbable that the conclusion be false given that the premises are true |
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| Describes the event or phenomenon to be explained |
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| Statement purports to do the explaining |
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| most often explains a phenomenon |
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| Examples intended to show what what something means |
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| Claim generally accepted; topic sentence then clarifying |
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| Passage expresses some kind of reasoning |
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switch the subject and predicate term
no a are b becomes:
no b are a |
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change quality, and replace predicate term with term complement
all a are b becomes:
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switch subject and predicate terms, and replace each with its term complement
all a are b becomes:
all non-b are non-a |
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| a substitution instance having true premises and a false conclusion. used to prove that an argument form is invalid. |
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| describes "commander in chief" |
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| provides an example "George W Bush" |
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