Module 6 - Extensional Meaning versus Intensional Meaning of Terms

Question 1

A (…) is a linguistic expression used to express a (…) and designate (stand for) a (…) of objects

Answer 1

term; concept; set

Question 2

Any linguistic expression which can serve as a (…) or an (…) expression can be considered a (…)

Answer 2

predicate; attribute; term

Question 3

A (…) is a class or collection of all the objects satisfying some specified (…) technically called (… …) by Bertrand Russell

Answer 3

set; predicate; propositional function

Question 4

A (…) can be presented as a list of the respective (…) of all the objects which are the (…) of the (…) or as a short summary (…) consisting in the (…) (…) or (…) which an object has to satisfy in order to qualify as a (…) of the (…)

Answer 4

set; names; members; set; specification; propositional; function; predicate; member; set

Question 5

The (…) (…) or (…) which must be satisfied by an object for such an object to count as a (…) of the (…) can be considered the (…) of membership in the (…)

Answer 5

propositional; function; predicate; member; set; criterion; set

Question 6

A (…) standing for a (…) which is non-empty (not null) is said to have (…) (…)

Answer 6

term; set; existensional; meaning

Question 7

The (…) meaning of a term consists in all the objects to which individually the term can be correctly applied

Answer 7

extensional

Question 8

In contrast, a (…) standing for a set which has no members, i.e. an empty set, is said to be (… …)

Answer 8

term; extensionally meaningless

Question 9

A (…) standing for a null/empty set has no (…) meaning

Answer 9

term; extensional

Question 10

A (…) (…) or a (…) which is descriptive is said to be (…) (…)

Answer 10

propositional; function; predicate; intensionally; meaningful

Question 11

A (…) which is (…) has (…)

Answer 11

term; descriptive; intension

Question 12

Extensionional meaning is the same as referential or denotative meaning

Answer 12

TRUE

Question 13

Intensional meaning is the same as descriptive meaning

Answer 13

TRUE

Question 14

All terms are extensionally meaningful

Answer 14

FALSE

Question 15

All terms are intensionally meaningful

Answer 15

FALSE

Question 16

Extensional meaning is the same as intensional meaning

Answer 16

FALSE

Question 17

The term ‘thing’ is extensionally meaningful

Answer 17

TRUE

Question 18

The term ‘nothing’ is extensionally meaningful

Answer 18

FALSE

Question 19

The term ‘thing’ is intensionally meaningless

Answer 19

TRUE

Question 20

The term ‘nothing’ is intensionally meaningless

Answer 20

TRUE

Question 21

Everything exists

Answer 21

TRUE

Question 22

Nothing exists

Answer 22

FALSE

Question 23

Excalibur exists

Answer 23

FALSE

Question 24

Excalibur existed

Answer 24

FALSE

Question 25

Isaac Newton existed

Answer 25

TRUE

Question 26

Isaac Newton exists

Answer 26

TRUE

Question 27

Nothing does not exist

Answer 27

TRUE

Question 28

Nothing is not a thing

Answer 28

TRUE

Question 29

Everything is not a thing

Answer 29

FALSE

Question 30

The sword stuck in stone exists

Answer 30

FALSE

Question 31

The sword stuck in stone existed

Answer 31

FALSE

Question 32

The term ‘the sword stuck in stone’ is a definite description

Answer 32

TRUE

Question 33

The term ‘the sword stuck in stone’ has intensional meaning

Answer 33

TRUE

Question 34

The term ‘the sword stuck in stone’ has extensional meaning

Answer 34

FALSE

Question 35

Excalibur is nothing

Answer 35

TRUE

Question 36

The sword stuck in stone is a nothing described

Answer 36

TRUE

Question 37

When one thinks of Excalibur, one is not thinking of an object Excalibur but thinking only of a bundle (or a conjunction) of descriptive (i.e. intensional) propositional function attributed or predicated of a supposedly existent but not actually existent Excalibur

Answer 37

TRUE

Question 38

When one thinks of Excalibur, one is thinking of the conjunction ‘x is a sword and x is stuck in stone and x is found by squire Arthur and x is subsequently pulled out by squire Arthur and etc. etc.’ following the whim of the storyteller

Answer 38

TRUE

Question 39

Science is whimsical storytelling

Answer 39

FALSE

Question 40

Religion is an evidenced account of reality

Answer 40

FALSE

Question 41

If the listener be uncritical and credulous, he/she expediently and conveniently ignores that no (actual, real) observations correspond to ‘x is a sword and x is stuck in stone and x is found by squire Arthur and etc. etc.’

Answer 41

TRUE

Question 42

The average ordinary listener whimsically sets science aside and simply, faithfully, and willingly believes the storyteller, not the scientist

Answer 42

TRUE

Question 43

The ultimate result of the Excalibur storytelling is that the credulous easy believer takes the bundle of picturesque impressionistic descriptions (without the backing of actual observations) as the very object Excalibur

Answer 43

TRUE

Question 44

If Excalibur be admitted in science, science does not require any observations of Excalibur

Answer 44

TRUE

Question 45

Religion does not demand of the religious any actual (direct) observations of Lucifer nor of God; the religious is simply told to believe

Answer 45

TRUE

Question 46

An X-boson is a Godly particle

Answer 46

FALSE/TRUE?

Question 47

For the religious, an imagined supposed existent is well enough considered as an actual existent, i.e. an extensional particular

Answer 47

TRUE

Question 48

In religion, imagination is never trustworthy enough as substitute for observation

Answer 48

FALSE

Question 49

In science, imagination is never trustworthy enough as substitute for observation

Answer 49

TRUE

Question 50

St. Augustine denies the existence of evil but fails to deny the existence of Lucifer the supposed cause of all evil

Answer 50

TRUE

Question 51

St. Augustine denies the existence of evil but fails to account for the evil of physical pain and to propose ways to avoid or minimize physical pain; in contrast. science accounts for occurrences of physical pain and presents techniques of minimizing and preventing physical pain

Answer 51

TRUE

Question 52

1. colored object 2. object 3. midnight blue colored object 4. blue colored object

Answer 52

2,1,4,3

Question 53

1. U.P. student 2. scholarly pretty female U.P. Diliman student 3. pretty female U.P. Diliman student 4. female U.P. Diliman student 5. student 6. U.P. Diliman student 7. impoverished scholarly pretty female U.P. Diliman student 8. impoverished scholarly pretty female U.P. Diliman student with a residence hall accommodation within U.P. Diliman campus 9. impoverished scholarly pretty female U.P. Diliman student

Answer 53

5,1,6,4,3,2,7,9,8

Question 54

1. primate 2. mammal 3. homo 4. living thing 5. chordate 6. sapiens 7. animal 8. vertebrate

Answer 54

4,7,8,2,5,1,3,6