Flashcards in Chapter 2 Deck (19)
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Cognitive meanings
Terms that convey information.
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Emotive meaning
Terminology that expresses or evokes feelings.
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A value claim
Claim that something is good, bad, right, wrong, better, worse, more important, or less important than some other thing.
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An Ambiguous expression
one that can be interpreted as having more than one clearly distinct meaning in a given context.
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Intensional meaning
the qualities, properties, characteristics or attributes that the term "connotes".
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Extensional meaning
consists of the members of the class that the term denotes.
A collection of objects to which that term applies.
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Stipulative Definitions
Assigns meaning to a word for the first time. It is the adaptation of language.
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Lexical Definitions
A definition used to report the meaning that a word already has in a language. It is the standard definition of a word.
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Criteria for a Lexical Definition
- should conform to the standards of proper grammar
- convey the essential meaning of the word being defined
- Should be neither too broad or too narrow
- Should avoid circularity
- Should not be negative when it can be affirmative
- Should avoid affective terminology (emotive language)
- indicate the context to which the definiens pertains.
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Precising Definitions
Intends to give more precision to an otherwise ambiguous term.
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Theoretical Definition
Terms defined within the context of a theory, and which its definition is made to fit a theory.
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Persuasive Definition
Intended to get you to feel a certain way about the term.
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Demonstrative (Ostensive)
When one is defined through non-verbal reference to an object.
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Enumerative
Listing of objects in the class of which is to be defined.
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Subclass
To point off subclasses of a term.
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Etymological
Defined by the use of other words in a different language.
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Operational
Defining a term by giving an operation that gives meaning to a word.
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Genus and Difference
Defining what is the differing factor of the object.
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