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Logic and Critical Thinking
Christopher Panza, Test 3
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Philosophy
Undergraduate 1
03/09/2011

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Term
Extension
Definition
The class of which things which P is true.
Term
Intension
Definition
A description, criterion, or test which is sufficient in principle to allow one to determine for any object x whether or not x is P.
Term
Connotation
Definition
the emotional attitude or reaction that the speaker intends to communicate by using that particular term.
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Ambiguous
Definition
The word has a number of meanings.
Term
Vague
Definition
There is a range of borderline cases to which the term neither definitely applies nor definitely fails to apply.
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Collective attribution
Definition
when it is asserted that for the term P, the class as a whole has the property P.
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Distributive Attribution
Definition
When it is asserted that for term P every member of a given class has the property P
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Definiens
Definition
The terms which set out the precise meaning of the definiedum
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Definiedum
Definition
the term which is being defined
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Necessary Condition
Definition
A necessary condition for P that every instance of P must have.
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Sufficient Condition
Definition
A condition whose presence suffices for P.
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Equivocation
Definition
An argument in which (a0 there is a shift in meaning of some term used and (B) if the term is taken in the same sense throughout, some premise of the argument will be false.
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precise
Definition
there is some sharply defined criterion or tests that determines when the term applies and when it does not.
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Slippery Slope
Definition
An argument that either has no difference or has an armageodon effect.
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Division
Definition
Arguments which treat a predicate true as if it is equivalent to a predicate true of each member of a class.
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Composition
Definition
From some predicate true of a member of a class to the same predicate ascribed to the class as a whole
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too Broad
Definition
if and only if the defining terms are true of something of which the defined term is not true.
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too narrow
Definition
if and only if the defined term is true of something of which the defining terms are not true...the extension of the defining terms to include something that is in the extension of the defined term
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