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A concept that is expressed precisely in words.
What is a term?
Any statement is either true or false.
What is the Law of Excluded Middle?
A sentence that is either true or false.
What is a statement?
A word that has more than one definition.
What is ambiguous?
The science and art of reasoning well.
What is Logic?
A statement cannot be both true and false.
What is the Law of Non-Contradiction?
The sort of definition that one would find in a dictionary.
What is a Lexical Definition?
A difference of opinion or perception.
What is an Apparent Disagreement?
If a statement is true, then it is true.
What is the Law of Identity?
Reasoning with certainty from premises to conclusions.
What is deduction?
A statement that is always true by logical structure.
What is Tautology?
A word that is one whose extent is unclear.
What is vague?
A term that is more specific, narrow, or concrete than the original term and is included by it.
What is Species?
Deals with the proper modes of reasoning.
What is Formal Logic?
A statement that gives the meaning of a term.
What is a definition?
Deals with operations of thinking that are indirectly related to reasoning.
What is informal logic?
A statement whose truth value can be determined from the statement itself.
What is a Self-Supporting Statement?
The part of the term which is the sum of all the common attributes denoted by the term.
What is intension?
A definition aiming at persuading the listener one way or another.
What is a persuasive definition?
Two statements are related by if the truth of one requires the truth of the other.
What is implication?
The part of a term which is the sum of all the individual objects described by it.
What is extension?
Two statements are if they imply one another.
What is logically equivalent?
Reasoning with probability from examples or experience to general rules.
What is induction?
A statement that is always false due to it’s logical structure.
What is Self-Contradiction?
A misunderstanding due to differing definitions for one or more words.
What is a Verbal Disagreement?