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 ______ of a term 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 have none of this.
What is truth value?
This is the definition of consistent.
What is two statements that can both be true at the same time?
This is a type of disagreement that is an actual inconsistency between two statements.
What is a real disagreement?
Definition of "Term"
What is a concept that is expressed precisely in words.
The Law of Identity States this.
What is "If a statement is true, then it is true"?
This type of word is one whose extent is unclear.
What is vague?
A _______ of a term 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?
These are referred to as apparent disagreements.
What is a difference of opinion or perception?
Definition of "definition"
What is a statement that gives the meaning of a term?
The Law of Noncontradiction states this.
What is "a statement cannot be both true and false"?
This type of definition shows relationships or reduces ambiguity by providing a single, established meaning of a term.
What is a lexical 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 and 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?
This is a misunderstanding due to differing definitions for one or more words.
What is a verbal disagreement?
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?
A definition whose purpose is to influence attitudes can be called this.
What is a persuasive 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?
Mr K is awesome.
Mr K is not awesome.
This is an example of what kind of disagreement?
What is a real disagreement?
He saith "Come now, and let us reason together" in Isaiah 1:16
Who is the Lord?
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 concepts are closely associated with genus and species charts, respectively increasing and decreasing as you work up the chart.
What are extension and intension?
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 deductive reasoning?
When we say that some S are P, we are saying this about whether other S are P.
What is nothing?
Anyone who disagrees with Mr K is this.
What is wrong?