PHI 1101 Lecture 4: Lecture 4 Chapter 2 .docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Iva Apostolova

Document Summary

Meaning and language: descriptive and evaluative meaning of words, terrorist freedom fighters, well known renowned/distinguished/notorious, deaf/crippled disabled, poor economically challenged, analytic, synthetic and contradictory statements, analytic statements are true by definition they are self evident truths, tautologies, also called necessary truths, ex. Tuesday, september 23rd, 2014: ambiguity and vagueness, result of the way that we use words and not a property of the words themselves, ambiguous statement one that has two or more different but usually quite precise meanings, vague statement one that lacks precise meaning, ambiguity should be avoided, vagueness not something that should be avoided by all means. I have other plans for tonight (deliberately vague: referential ambiguity when referring word or phrase can be interpreted as pointing to more that one thing, results in two things: either the other person is confused about what you"re referring to, or the other person thinks your referring to the wrong thing, referential ambiguity b/w collective and distributive use of word.