Sentence Types
A sentence that asks a question
What is an interrogatory sentence?
The societal understanding of a word
What is connotation?
A type of knowledge that is based on reason alone DOUBLE POINTS if you can name BOTH terms!
What is a priori/rational knowledge?
A rule of paraphrase intended to explain meaning
What is a definition?
What it means for a statement to have "meaning" when we're talking about LP/PR
What is having a truth value?
Sentences meant to express surprise, shock, etc.
What are exclamatory sentences/exclamations?
A method of persuasion that relies on numbers and logic
What is logos?
A statement that is self-contradictory to deny
(400 BONUS POINTS if you can name the three-word term as well)
What is an analytic statement?
FOR 400 BONUS POINTS: What is a logically necessary truth?
A definition that explains the current usage of a term
What is a lexical definition?
A statement has no meaning if being true or false makes no practical difference for any person.
What is pragmatism?
A sentence that gives a command
What is an imperative sentence?
The formal, official definition of a term
What is denotation?
A type of knowledge that relies on what you experience through your senses. DOUBLE POINTS if you can name BOTH terms!
What is a posteriori/empirical knowledge?
A definition that first specifies some things that the term applies to and then specifies that if the term applies to certain things, then it also applies to certain other things.
What is a recursive definition?
If there's no way to test a statement, then it has no meaning.
What is logical positivism?
A fact-stating sentence with a truth value
What is a declarative/propositional sentence?
A method of persuasion that relies on the persuader's credibility and personal character.
What is ethos?
A statement that is not self-contradictory but, if denied, would still not be self-contradictory.
(DOUBLE POINTS to name the second term for it)
What is a synthetic statement?
DOUBLE POINTS: What is a contingent statement?
A definition that disambiguates a term by stipulating a clearer meaning.
What is a clarifying definition?
CURVEEEEEEEBALLLLLLL! Name and define the three qualities of an O3 Judeo-Christian God.
DOUBLE POINTS: Name the three types of arguments for the existence of the O3 God.
Omnipresent
Omniscient
Omnibenevolent
DOUBLE POINTS:
Teleological
Cosmological
Ontological
FREEEEEEEE POINTSSSSSSS... but only if you can name all your classmate's names!
A method of persuasion that appeals to the audience's emotional state, often inciting feelings of pity, outrage, etc.
What is pathos?
The philosopher who invented the analytic/synthetic distinction
FOR DOUBLE POINTS: The other philosopher who, in 1986, criticizes the approach of the philosopher who originally invented the analytic/synthetic distinction.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
DOUBLE POINTS: Who is Willard Quine?
A way to test lexical definitions, which states that if we can switch A and B in a variety of sentences, then they mean the same thing.
What is the interchange test?
CURVEEEEEBALLLLLLL! Describe what it means to argue by "denying the antecedent." Is it valid? Why or why not?
If P then R
Not P
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∴ Not R