PHIL 275 Lecture 7: Lecture 7- Types of definitions.docx

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 275
• Professor: Yoshiki Kobasigawa

Document Summary

Intensional definitions: assigns a meaning to a term by listing the properties or attributes shared by all the objects that are denoted (be a sign of, indicate) by the term. Defines a word by specifying the intension of that word, or its constituents, that it connoted when it was introduced. it was originally introduced. ) Philosophy" means love, philo", of wisdom, sophia". (you are going back to how. Kara" means empty and oke" is a short-form. Similarly, karate" means empty hand". (explaining the constituents of the word as it was introduced. ) Assigns a meaning to a term (the species) by establishing a genus and combining it with the attribute that distinguishes the members of that species. Genus is a larger group than the species. When a species belongs to a genus, every object of the species belongs to the genus. creatures). Species (kitten/cat/mammal) that belongs to a genus (cat/mammal/living being specified to define the term. )