Definitions
This is the science and art of reasoning well.
What is Logic?
The number of Laws of Thought mentioned in the Introduction of Introductory Logic.
What is 3?
This kind of word has more than one definition.
What is ambiguous?
A ______ is a term that is more specific, narrow, or concrete than the original term and included by it.
What is species?
These are the 3 methods of defining.
What are by synonym, by example, and by genus and difference?
Questions, commands, and nonsense statements do not have this.
What is truth value?
Two statements that can both be true at the same time.
What is consistent?
These are referred to as apparent disagreements.
What is a difference of opinion or perception?
A concept that is expressed precisely in words.
What is a term?
This law states that if a statement is true, then it is true.
What is the Law of Identity?
This type of word is one whose extent is unclear.
What is vague?
A _______ is a term that is more general, broad, or abstract that the original term and includes it.
What is a genus?
"Not being stated negatively" would be in contradiction to the spirit of this rule for defining by genus and difference.
What is "a definition should be stated positively if possible"?
These are the two categories of statements.
What are self-supporting statements and supported statements?
When the truth of one statement requires the truth of a second statement, they are related by this.
What is implication?
This is a type of disagreement that is an actual inconsistency between two statements.
What is a real disagreement?
A statement that gives meaning to a term.
What is a definition?
This law states that a statement cannot be both true and false.
What is the Law of Noncontradiction?
A definition whose purpose is to influence attitudes can be called this.
What is a persuasive definition?
If a list of species is complete and no other types of the original term exist, the list is said to be this.
What is exhaustive?
A definition which has too great an intension or extension breaks this rule.
What is "a definition should not be too broad or too narrow"?
These are the 3 categories of self-supporting statements.
What are self-reports, statements that are true or false by logical structure, and statements that are true or false by definition?
When one statement implies a second and the second implies the first, they are referred to as this.
What is logically equivalent?
He said, "Come now, and let us reason together" in Isaiah 1:16
Who is the Lord?
This is a sentence that is either true or false.
What is a statement?
This law states that any statement is either true or false.
What is the Law of Excluded Middle?
This type of definition shows relationships or reduces ambiguity by providing a single, established meaning of a term.
What is a lexical definition?
If two species are mutually exclusive, they do not do this.
What is overlap?
Selected from the list below, these attributes are essential to defining a book:
rectangular, blue, hard-covered, having pictures, communicative of ideas, having words, having pages
What is communicative of ideas and having pages?
These are the 2 types of self-supporting statements by logical structure.
What are tautologies and self-contradictions?
When the truth or falsity of one statement has nothing at all to do with the truth or falsity of another statement, we say they are this.
What is independent?
This is a misunderstanding due to differing definitions for one or more words.
What is a verbal disagreement?
A definition that reduces the vagueness of a term.
What is a precising definition?
The 3 Laws of Thought
What are The Law of Excluded Middle, The Law of Identity, and the Law of Noncontradiction?
These are the 6 purposes that definitions serve.
What is show relationships, remove ambiguity, reduce vagueness, increase vocabulary, explain concepts theoretically, and influence attitudes?
These sum of all the individual objects described by a term. This increases as we move higher on the genus and species chart.
What is extension?
These are the 6 rules for defining by genus and difference.
What are stating the essential attributes of the term, not being circular, not being too broad or too narrow, not being unclear or figurative, stating positively if possible, and being the same part of speech as the term?
These are the 3 sources of information to support statements.
What are authority, experience, and deduction?
When we say that some S are P, we are saying this about whether other S are P.
What is nothing?
The definition needed when a new word is invented or an existing word is applied in a new way.
What is a stipulative definition?