MODR 1760 Study Guide - Final Guide: Necessity And Sufficiency, Persuasive Definition, Ostensive Definition

• School: York University
• Department: Modes Of Reasoning
• Course: MODR 1760
• Professor: Cael D.Zorn

Document Summary

Clear: easily and accurately understand or express what is being said. Precise: involves being as exact as the context requires or allows. Imprecise: involves being less exact than the context requires or allows. Meaning or sense: concept is derived from a set of shared expectations or rules of use that members of a language community have about a given concept, and is often captured by a definition. Referent: object that a concept or word refers to. Connotation: the subjective and emotional associations we make with a concept or word. Neutral claim: a claim with little or no strong emotional connotation. Emotive force: identifies the emotional nature (positive or negative) within the connotation. Vague: meaning or application is unclear, fuzzy or inexact in the context of the purposes for which it is being used. Quantifier: a word that indicates how many members of a group a claim applies to.