Logic 1
What is logic?
a concept that is expressed precisely in words
What is a term?
species that do not overlap
What is mutually exclusive?
a sentence that is either true or false
What is a statement?
a self-supporting statement that refers to the belief of the speaker
What is a self-report?
any statement is either true or false
What is the Law of Excluded Middle?
a statement that gives the meaning of a term
What is a definition?
no other types exist
What is exhaustive?
two statements that are both true at the same time
What is consistent?
a self-supporting statement that can be seen to be true of flase by how the sentence is put together
What is true or false by logical structure?
What is the Law of Identity?
a word that has more than one definition
What is ambiguous?
a statement whose truth value can be determined from the statement itself
What is a self-supporting statement?
two statements that can not both be true at the same time
What is inconsistent?
a self-supporting statement that is always true by logical structure
What is a tautology?
a statement can not be both true and false
What is the Law of Noncontradiction?
a word whose extent is unclear
What is vague?
a statement whose truth value depends on evidence or information from outside itself
What is a supported statement?
when there appears to be inconsistency between statements
What is disagreement?
a self-supporting statement that is false by logical structure
What is a self-contradiction?
reasoning with probability from examples or experience to general rules
What is induction?
reasoning with certainty from premises to conclusions
What is deduction?
the sum of all the individual objects described by a term
What is extension?
the sum of all the common attributes denoted by a term
What is intension?
a self-supporting statement that is necessarily true or false because of the definitions of the words in the sentence
What is true or false by definition?