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| the parties explicity and unabiguously disagree in belief or in attitude |
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| A proposition that contains another proposition |
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| The conten of a thought, belief, sentence or expression that is always true or false. May not be known wheather it is true or false |
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| The study of methods and principles used to distinguish correct from incorrect reasoning |
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| a term is vague when there are "borderline" cases to which the term might or might not apply |
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| Uncertainty because a word of phrase has more than one meaning |
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| Relations of truth and falsehood, such as: is probable is, is logically consitent with |
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| Language used to convey or evoke feelings |
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| Language used to convey information |
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| In an inductive argument the premises are not claimed to give conclusion support, but only to give some support for it. link of probability |
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| An argument that is stated incompletely, the unstated part of it being taken for granted |
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| A utterance used to make a statement but which, because it is in interrogative form is therefore neither true or false. Does not literally assert anything |
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| the symbol of symbols used to explain the meaning of the definiendum |
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| A term whose correct applicaiton to something, x, depends on how x is related to other objects. Premisses and conclusios are relative terms |
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| Any group of propositions in which one proposition (conclusion) is claimed to follow from the others(the premises) |
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| A type of compound proposition. If x than y. If either is true so is the other |
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| Relations of time, such as: being before, being after, being simultaneous with |
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| Language used to cause of prevent action |
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| there appears to be disagreement between the parties, but there is no genuine disagreement between them at all |
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| Apparently verbal but really genuine dispute |
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| The parties may misunderstand one anothersuse of terms, but the disagrement goes beyond differing uses of terms |
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type of compound proposition. Asserting the conjunction of two propositions is strictly equivalent to asserting each of the component propositions themselves
EX: "Wolves are hunters and intellegent" |
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type of compound proposition
One does not assert either of its components. Rather one asserts that at least one of the componets is true. EX: "Clinton will be censured of impeached by congress" |
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| a proposal to use the definiendum to mean what is meant by the definiens. Directive rather than informative. not true or false. |
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| Textbook definition( dictionary definition) |
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| an account of a term that is helpful for general understanding or in scientific practice |
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| extension of a general term |
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| the collection of objects to which tat term applies |
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| Intension of a general term |
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| is the set of attributes shared by all and only those objects denoted by the term |
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| Definition by genus and difference |
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| Intensional definitions in which we first name the genus of which the species designated by the definiendum is it a subclass, and then name the attribute that distinguishes that species from all other species in that genus |
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| Subjective intension of a word |
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| ois the set of all the attributed the speaker belives to be denoted by that word |
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| Objective intension of a word |
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| the total set of attributes by all the objects in the terms extention. |
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| Conventional intension of a word |
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| based on informal agreement in using as a criterion for the application on the word, a set of things possesed by things denoted by the word. |
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| Rules for definition by genus and species |
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Rule 1: A definition should state the essential attributes of the species.
Rule 2: A definition must not be circular
Rule 3: A defintion must be neither too broad or too narrow
Rule 4: A definition must not be expressed in ambiguous, obscure, or figuarative language.
Rule 5: A definition should not be negative when it can be affirmative |
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| a type of argument that may seem correct, but proves on examination not to be so |
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