Chapter 2 - Simple - Apprehension Idea and Term

Question 1

Is the beggining of knowledge

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Apprehension

Question 2

Mental product of apprehension

Answer 2

Idea

Question 3

Is the process by which the intellect “strips” the object of its non-essential qualities, retains the essential ones, and forms them into one image

Answer 3

Abstraction

Question 4

The possession of the intentional form of the object

Answer 4

Knowledge

Question 5

Intentional form

Answer 5

Image/ copy/ representation

Question 6

Two kinds of cognitive or knowing faculties

Answer 6

Senses

Intellect

Question 7

Material faculty

All knowledge that is rational starts form here

Answer 7

Senses

Question 8

Spiritual faculty

It can know the abstract/ immaterial/ universal

Answer 8

Intellect

Question 9

Conventional sign that expresses our idea/ concept/ thought

Answer 9

Term

Question 10

The connection between the sign and the object signified is based on agreement practise

Answer 10

Conventional

Question 11

Represents something other than itself

Answer 11

Sign

Question 12

External manifestation or sign of an idea

Answer 12

Term

Question 13

Is the sum total of the attributes or thought elements which constitute the idea

Answer 13

Comprehension

Question 14

Is the sum total of all the individual, things or being or groups to which the idea can be applied.

Answer 14

Extension

Question 15

Is a term that is used in an identical sense

It expresses only one meaning or sense when applied to several objects.

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Univocal

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Is a term that expresses two or more different or unrelated meanings.

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Equivocal

Question 17

A term is applied to unlike objects because of some resemblanc between them

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Analogy by proportion

Question 18

The term is used in an absolute sense in one thing and the attributed in another things because of some relation with the first

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Analogy by attribution

Question 19

Is a term that expresses a meaninng that is partly different and partly the same, or meanings that are related.

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Analogous

Question 20

A term that applies to only one individual or object

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Singular

Question 21

A term taht is applied distributively to all individuals or objects in a class or to the class itself

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Universal

Question 22

A term that applies to only a part of the extension of the universal

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Particular

Question 23

A term that applies to a collective idea

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Collective

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What is the purpose of definition

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To explain

To express what you understand

Question 25

Definitin came from the Latin term

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Definire - to lay down

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Etymological meaning of definition

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To lay down the markers or limits

Question 27

A definition that simply explains the meaning of a term or word Synonym or etymology

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Nominal

Question 28

It explains the naturr of the object by giving its properties, characteristics, qualities or features.

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Real

Question 29

Necessary and unchangeable properties

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Essential properties

Question 30

Contingent and changeable properties

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Non-essential properties

Question 31

Consists of the essential elemeents which make the object or individual similar to others

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Genus

Question 32

Is the ditinctive element which distinguishes it from others

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Specific difference

Question 33

A definition that Explains an object or thing by giving the set of distibnctive characteristics of an object or external features that are distinct to the object.

Answer 33

Distinctive

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A definition that explains an object by giving its origin or proces of production

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Genetic

Question 35

A definition that explains a thing or object by ginving its efficient cause

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Causal

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Is a definition baes on the common knowledge or idea of people about a thing or object

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Popular

Question 37

Definitions that are usually technical definitions or scientific terms

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Scientific

Question 38

Definitions of legal concepts, procedures using legal terms

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Legal

Question 39

Definitions given in a dictionary

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Lexical

Question 40

Rules of definition

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It must be clearer than the term being defined It must not contain the term being defined It must be convertible to the term being defined It must be an affirmative statement

Question 41

Is defined as the first act of the intellect by which it knows the essence or nature of the thing without affriming or denying anything about it

Answer 41

Simple Apprehension