FREC48H3 Study Guide - Propositional Calculus, Homophone, Hyponymy And Hypernymy
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Review - analysing and distinguishing meanings (reading: ch. There is a mid-point on a scale. Relation of a part to a whole (= part of) Meronym / holonym: hyponymy = type of, kind of. Material not covered last class: taxonomy (a type of hyponymy) A way of classifying biological species, hyponymy for plants and animals: synonymy. Phrasal synonymy - expressions with more than one lexeme. Analyses meaning in terms of binary features. Features seen as having two possible values (+ or -) Similar to principles of structuralist phonological analysis ([ voiced], [ labial], [ nasal]) Two unrelated words share the same phonological form. Words have two or more related senses. How to tell if a word is polysemous or monosemous. The study of valid reasoning and inference. Investigates the properties of valid arguments and chains of reasoning. Specifies the conditions which arguments (syllogisms) must meet in order to be valid.