PHL145H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Fallacy, Underdetermination, Syntactic Ambiguity
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Justificatory: to persuade justificans: thing that justifies justificandum: thing to be justified. Syntax: arrangement of words and phrases to create well formed sentences; set of rules that tell us when its used in language, requires an object. Performative: make things the way you say things are. Explicit performative: thereby test : i uttered by speaker, speaker thereby does (e. g. command, promise, assert,etc) Conversational act: give commands to change ppl"s plans(e. g. tell someone to give me ) Gricean maxims: quantity: make your contribution as informative as required, quality: don"t say what you believe to be false, or what you don"t know to be true. Implicature : adhere to maxims you and others allows to extract more info than what literally said. Conditionals (if p then q: antecedent (if clause) & consequent (then clause, allow to infer new info when we know antecedents true. Validity: when premise= true conclusion cannot be false(argument validity depends on syntactic notion (grammar))
