General
What is to reason?
A statement that gives the meaning of a term.
What is a definition?
A concept that is expressed precisely in one or more words.
What is a term?
is sum of all the individual things to which the term applies.
What is the extension of a term?
The error in the following genus/species chart.
Professions
LAWYERS DOCTORS SURGEONS
What is overlap? (Species are not mutually exclusive.)
the science and art of reasoning well
What is logic?
a definition that shows relationship or reduces ambiguity by providing a single, established meaning of a term.
What is a lexical definition?
A term that is more specific, narrow, or concrete that the original term and is included by it.
What is intension of a term?
Is the following sequence showing increasing or decreasing intension or extension?
FLYING CRAFT, AIRPLANE, BIPLANE, BOEING STEARMAN
Increasing intension, decreasing extension
Why is logic a science?
Dependent on the situation it is used, this definition seeks to give more specific meaning to what was previously vague or fuzzy.
A term that is more general, broad, or abstract than the original term and includes it.
What is a genus?
What is increasing intension?
Student should give a specific number.
Because the rules of logic can be practiced skillfully instead of woodenly.
Why is logic considered an art?
When a new word is invented, or an existing word is applied in a new way.
What is a stipulative definition?
What is mutually exclusive?
increasing abstraction; becomes harder to imagine
What is increasing extension?
"The border is flooded by illegal aliens every year."
The term 'illegal alien" is trying to persuade the audience to give immigrants a broadly negative definition.
This deals with proper and improper modes of reasoning.
What is formal logic?
A definition that is often philosophical or scientific in nature to better understand the meaning behind a term.
A term that means that no other object exists outside of the given categories.
What is exhaustive?
Put the terms in order according to increasing intension.
FEMALE; HUMAN BEING; CREATURE: MOTHER
CREATURE; HUMAN BEING, FEMALE, MOTHER
DAILY DOUBLE: a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
What is hierarchy?