| Term | Definition |
|---|
| logic is the _____and ____of reasoning well | science art |
| what is the law of Excluded middle | a statement is either true or false |
| what is the law of Identity | if a statement is true than it is true |
| what is the law of Non Contradiction | a statement cannot be both true and false |
| name 6 things that definitions do | show relationships, remove ambiguity, reduce vagueness, increase vocabulary,explain concepts theoretically, influence attitudes |
| an _______ word has more than one definition | ambiguous |
| the ______ of a term is the sum of all the individual objects described by it | extension |
| the______ of a term is the sum of all of the common attributes denoted by the term | intension |
| greater ______ means more abstraction | extension |
| greater______means greater concreteness | intension |
| a definition should be of the same part of ______ as the term | speech |
| lesson 20 define major term | The major term is the predicate term of a conclusion. |
| lesson 20 define minor term | The minor term is the subject term of the conclusion. |
| lesson 20 define middle term | The middle term is a term which is in both premises but which is not in the conclusion. |
| lesson 19 define argument | An argument is a set of statements, one of which appears to be implied or supported by others. |
| lesson 19 define conclusion | The conclusion of an argument is the statement which appears to be implied by the other statements in the argument which are called premises |
| lesson 20 define categorical syllogism | A categorical syllogism is a deductive argument consisting of three statements in categorical form that together use only three terms called the major, minor, and middle |
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