MODR 1711 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Collectively Exhaustive Events
8 Dec 2013
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Classification is the ability to categorize properly. Arguments: all bachelors are unmarried, socrates is a bachelor, socrates is unmarried. #3 is the conclusion, it is founded based on the belief of #1 and #2. The more a conclusion has a purchase on your life the more likely you will need arguments to back it up. Propositions (1) - (3) - each one of these numbered steps are propositions. Propositions are all either true or false. Beliefs are always about propositions, which are always true or false. Propositions are things that you can think about not things that you can see. Our verbal acts or physical acts of inscribing (1) - (3) Vehicles for asserting propositions on specific occasions. The physical things that are talked about when you use words. Classification: concepts and referents, concept is an idea that represents a class of things, a referent is the thing to which a concept refers.
