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Ambiguity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a word, phrase, etc. that has more than one
meaning and uncertainty as to which particular meaning is meant.
Don't have enough information to decide the meaning of the word.
Vagueness - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔uncertainty or lack of clarity on any meaning
at all.
Worse than ambiguity
Don't have a clear candidate
Factual vs. Verbal Disputes - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔We often think a dispute is
factual (that someone disagrees with us as to what is the case), when it is
really a verbal dispute, a disagreement or lack of clarity as to precisely
what we mean. In other words, two people could have the same views but
,think that they disagree simply because they are being unclear as to
exactly what they mean.
"Talking past one another".
Verbal are commonly mistaken for factual
Informative Function - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔to inform or describe
Directive Function of language - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔commands. These can be
rewritten as obligation statements.
Ethical statements are often disguised as commands.
Commands as obligations - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔"Go close the door!" vs "you
should close it"
Used to make things seem nicer.
Ethical: you shouldn't do X you should do Y
Emotive Function of language - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the use of language to elicit
an emotional reaction.
Basis for modern advertising and business.
Trigger w/ compassion
, Denotation vs. Connotation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔what a thing is. Literal
meaning
the qualities it has (what makes it what it is). Advertising will attach a +
connotation to products.
Law of Non-Contradiction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔something cannot both exist
and not exist or be true and false at the same time and in the same way
Fallacy of Division - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Applying something characteristic to a
single member without any further data (cheating because you don't have
further information. Makes the jump illegitimate).
All MSU students -> one student
Fallacy of Composition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔applying something characteristic
of an individual member to the entire group without any further data. (lack
of further information).
One student -> All MSU students
Appeal to Force - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔an appeal that contains at least an
implicit threat. Not always a fallacy.
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Ambiguity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a word, phrase, etc. that has more than one
meaning and uncertainty as to which particular meaning is meant.
Don't have enough information to decide the meaning of the word.
Vagueness - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔uncertainty or lack of clarity on any meaning
at all.
Worse than ambiguity
Don't have a clear candidate
Factual vs. Verbal Disputes - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔We often think a dispute is
factual (that someone disagrees with us as to what is the case), when it is
really a verbal dispute, a disagreement or lack of clarity as to precisely
what we mean. In other words, two people could have the same views but
,think that they disagree simply because they are being unclear as to
exactly what they mean.
"Talking past one another".
Verbal are commonly mistaken for factual
Informative Function - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔to inform or describe
Directive Function of language - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔commands. These can be
rewritten as obligation statements.
Ethical statements are often disguised as commands.
Commands as obligations - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔"Go close the door!" vs "you
should close it"
Used to make things seem nicer.
Ethical: you shouldn't do X you should do Y
Emotive Function of language - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the use of language to elicit
an emotional reaction.
Basis for modern advertising and business.
Trigger w/ compassion
, Denotation vs. Connotation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔what a thing is. Literal
meaning
the qualities it has (what makes it what it is). Advertising will attach a +
connotation to products.
Law of Non-Contradiction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔something cannot both exist
and not exist or be true and false at the same time and in the same way
Fallacy of Division - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Applying something characteristic to a
single member without any further data (cheating because you don't have
further information. Makes the jump illegitimate).
All MSU students -> one student
Fallacy of Composition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔applying something characteristic
of an individual member to the entire group without any further data. (lack
of further information).
One student -> All MSU students
Appeal to Force - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔an appeal that contains at least an
implicit threat. Not always a fallacy.
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