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Literal meaning
❖A sentence's grammatical structure and the
conventional meanings assigned to the words used
Disanalogy
❖A point of dissimilarity between two things,
something that two things don't have in common.
Counter-analogy
❖A new, competing argument - one that compares the
thing in question to something else
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Unintended consequences
❖Is one that the person who mounted that argument
would not want to accept
Formal logic
❖Deals with the proper modes of reasoning
Informal logic
❖Deals with operations of thinking that are indirectly
related to reasoning
Declarative sentence
❖A sentence that makes a statement
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❖Ex: "today is friday."
Interrogative sentence
❖A sentence that asks a question
❖Ex: "is today friday?"
Imperative sentence
❖A sentence that requests or commands.
❖Ex: "shut the door."
Statement
❖A sentence that is either true or false
Connectives
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❖A word or phrase that connects the ideas of a speech
and indicates the relationship between them
Truth-value
❖The truth or falsity of a statement
Negation
❖The contradiction or denial of something
Conjunction
❖Joins together two statements, so that both are
asserted to be the case
❖Ex: "the dog is barking, however there is no intruder."
SAYLOR ACADEMY - PHIL102 FINAL STUDY
TEST*** QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | VERIFIED
AND WELL DETAILED ANSWERS |DOWNLOAD
AND PASS | LATEST EXAM UPDATE 2026/2027
Literal meaning
❖A sentence's grammatical structure and the
conventional meanings assigned to the words used
Disanalogy
❖A point of dissimilarity between two things,
something that two things don't have in common.
Counter-analogy
❖A new, competing argument - one that compares the
thing in question to something else
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Unintended consequences
❖Is one that the person who mounted that argument
would not want to accept
Formal logic
❖Deals with the proper modes of reasoning
Informal logic
❖Deals with operations of thinking that are indirectly
related to reasoning
Declarative sentence
❖A sentence that makes a statement
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❖Ex: "today is friday."
Interrogative sentence
❖A sentence that asks a question
❖Ex: "is today friday?"
Imperative sentence
❖A sentence that requests or commands.
❖Ex: "shut the door."
Statement
❖A sentence that is either true or false
Connectives
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❖A word or phrase that connects the ideas of a speech
and indicates the relationship between them
Truth-value
❖The truth or falsity of a statement
Negation
❖The contradiction or denial of something
Conjunction
❖Joins together two statements, so that both are
asserted to be the case
❖Ex: "the dog is barking, however there is no intruder."
