PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Rhetorical Device, Dangling Modifier, Staling

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

Document Summary

Terms are vague to the extent that they have blurry boundaries are fuzzy at the edges. So there are borderline cases to which they may or may not apply. : example: how bald does baldy need to be to be bald? the lack of precise meaning. : being intentionally vague is often a strategic rhetorical device: example: someone asks you for dinner saturday night. If you don"t want to offend them, you tell them you"re busy instead. In this case, being busy" is vague enough to include dinner at the mayor"s house or a night of tv watching. Unintentional vagueness slogans without really saying something deliberate and meaningful. At worst, it corrupts our ability to think clearly . : many times people speak in vague language with clich s and. When two or more precise meanings are conflated and/or confused. : occurs when the referring word of phrase can be interpreted as.