What's the word? (1-10)
This is a concept that can be expressed precisely in one or more words.
What is a term?
This is a statement that can give you the meaning of a term.
What is a definition?
These are the two types of statements.
What are supported and self-supporting?
This is a term that is more specific or narrow than the original term and is included by it.
What is species?
What is consistent?
This is a particular kind of sentence that can either be true or false.
What is statement?
When words have more than one possible meaning they are called this.
What is ambiguous?
One of the types of self-supporting statements, this is when someone is reporting on their own thoughts or feelings, for example: I believe that dogs are better than cats.
What are self reports?
This is often the clearest method for defining a term. You give it's genus and then add descriptive words that distinguish that term from every other species in that genus.
What is defining by genus and difference?
Two statements are __________ if the truth value of the one has no effect on the truth value of the other.
What is independent?
This is the science and art of reasoning well
What is Logic?
This is a type of definition given to a term that is not understood, usually a scientific or philosophical term.
This statement's truth value depends on an outside source, such as experience or authority.
What is a supported statement?
One of the rules for defining by genus and difference, is basically means you can't use the word in the definition of the word.
What is a definition should not be circular?
This is a type of disagreement that occurs when different definitions are used for the same term.
What are verbal disagreements?
When a term's extent is unclear.
What is vague?
This type of definition provides a single, estblished meaning of a term and can also be called a dictionary definition.
What is a lexical definition?
These TWO types of sentences have no truth value and are not statements.
What are questions and nonsense?
Another rule for defining by genus and difference, we know that a definition should always state the _______ ________ of the term.
What are essential attributes?
This is difference of opinion or perception, but may not be a real inconsistency.
What is an apparent disagreement?
This type of statement is FALSE by logical structure.
What is self-contradiction?
What is a stipulative definition?
This type of statement is always true because of it's logical structure.
What is tautology?
This is the term that is more general, broad or abstract than the original term and includes it.
What is genus?
When the first statement must imply the second statement, and the second statement must imply the first.
What is logical equivalence?