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1. Which of the following words or group of words is not a term?
a. Author of Evangeline.
b. Easily readable.
c. Most expensive bottle of wine.
d. New Guinea.
e. Agility.
2. Words and statements that have cognitive meaning are those that:
a. Convey information.
b. Convey opinions.
c. Express arguments.
d. Express rational connections between statements.
e. Evoke feelings.
3. The primary danger of emotively charged words is that they:
a. Cause arguments to be invalid.
b. Lead us to confuse premises with conclusion.
c. Cause arguments to be unsound.
d. Prompt us to leap to unjustified conclusions.
e. Incline us to confuse inductive arguments with deductive arguments.
4. Words such as “excessive,” “fresh,” and “normal” tend to be:
a. Emotive.
b. Ambiguous.
c. Vague.
d. Factual.
e. Extensional.
5. A claim that something is good, bad, right, or wrong is called a(n):
a. Traditional claim.
b. Factual claim.
c. Vague claim.
d. Ambiguous claim.
e. Value claim.
6. The newspaper headline “Farmer Bill Dies in House” is primarily:
a. Vague.
b. Ambiguous.
c. Evocative.
d. Analytic.
e. Conventional.
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7. The intension of a term consists of:
a. The members of the class that the term denotes.
b. The objectives to be accomplished by using the term.
c. The qualities or attributes that the term connotes.
d. The subjective feelings in the mind of the speaker or writer.
e. The class of definitions that a term may have.
8. Which of the following are all connoted by the term “novelist”?
a. Moby Dick, The Scarlet Letter, Gone With the Wind.
b. Melville, Hawthorne, Mitchell.
c. Creative, literary, imaginative.
d. Melville, Moby Dick, adventure story.
e. Love story, horror story, adventure story.
9. Denotation means roughly the same thing as:
a. Extension.
b. Difference.
c. Intension.
d. Connotation.
e. Species.
10. Which of the following are all denoted by the term “novelist”?
a. Moby Dick, The Scarlet Letter, Gone With the Wind.
b. Melville, Hawthorne, Mitchell.
c. Love story, horror story, adventure story.
d. Creative, literary, imaginative.
e. Melville, Moby Dick, adventure story.
11. Conventional connotation is introduced to deal with the problem that arises because:
a. Proper names have no intension.
b. Intension determines extension.
c. Some words have empty extension.
d. Increasing intension does not always correspond to decreasing extension.
e. Words mean different things to different people.
12. Which of the following pairs of terms have the same extension?
a. Frog, toad.
b. Triangle, figure.
c. Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush.
d. Unicorn, elephant.
e. Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon.
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13. The term “currently living dinosaur” has:
a. Closed extension.
b. Empty intension.
c. Empty extension.
d. Meaningless connotation.
e. Ambiguous extension.
14. Which of the following groups of terms is in the order of decreasing extension?
a. Tuna, fish, albacore, ocean fish.
b. Albacore, tuna, ocean fish, fish.
c. Fish, tuna, ocean fish, albacore.
d. Fish, ocean fish, tuna, albacore.
e. Ocean fish, tuna, albacore, fish.
15. Which of the following groups of terms is in the order of decreasing intension?
a. Daisy, flower, plant, living thing.
b. Flower, plant, living thing, daisy.
c. Living thing, daisy, plant, flower.
d. Plant, flower, daisy, living thing.
e. Living thing, plant, flower, daisy.
16. In the definition “‘Mandolin’ means a twelve-stringed lute,” the words “a twelve-stringed lute” are the:
a. Explanandum.
b. Definiendum.
c. Explanans.
d. Definiens.
e. Explicandum.
17. In the definition “‘Placid’ means tranquil,” the word “placid” is the:
a. Definiens.
b. Definiendum.
c. Genus.
d. Difference.
e. Species.
18. The definition “‘Autocrat’ means a monarch ruling with unlimited authority” is an example of a:
a. Precising definition.
b. Persuasive definition.
c. Lexical definition.
d. Theoretical definition.
e. Stipulative definition.
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19. The definition “‘Mind’ means the region of the brain that manipulates symbols” is an example of a:
a. Lexical definition.
b. Stipulative definition.
c. Persuasive definition.
d. Theoretical definition.
e. Precising definition.
20. The definition “‘Shaket’ means a jacket made of light material that buttons like a shirt” is an example of a:
a. Lexical definition.
b. Theoretical definition.
c. Persuasive definition.
d. Precising definition.
e. Stipulative definition.
21. The definition “‘Welfare’ means a handout made by the government to lazy people who refuse to work” is an example
of a:
a. Lexical definition.
b. Persuasive definition.
c. Precising definition.
d. Theoretical definition.
e. Stipulative definition.
22. The definition “‘Bright’ means having an intensity of at least 5000 candle power” is an example of a:
a. Theoretical definition.
b. Precising definition.
c. Lexical definition.
d. Persuasive definition.
e. Definition by subclass.
23. The kind of definition that assigns a meaning to a word by indicating the attributes that the word connotes is:
a. An enumerative definition.
b. A demonstrative (ostensive) definition.
c. A theoretical definition.
d. An intensional definition.
e. A definition by subclass.
24. The definition “‘Rationalist’ means someone such as Descartes, Leibniz, or Spinoza” is an example of:
a. An enumerative definition.
b. A definition by subclass.
c. A definition by genus and difference.
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d. An operational definition.
e. A demonstrative (ostensive) definition.
25. In the definition “‘Garrulous’ means talkative,” the word “talkative” is the:
a. Genus.
b. Definiendum.
c. Definiens.
d. Difference.
e. Species.
26. The definition “‘Celebrity’ means a person who is widely known” is an example of:
a. A synonymous definition.
b. An enumerative definition.
c. A demonstrative (ostensive) definition.
d. An operational definition.
e. A definition by genus and difference.
27. The definition “‘Insect’ means a fly, wasp, ant, and so on” is an example of:
a. A definition by subclass.
b. A demonstrative (ostensive) definition.
c. A definition by genus and difference.
d. An enumerative definition.
e. A synonymous definition.
28. In the definition “‘Newt’ means a semiaquatic salamander,” the word “semiaquatic” is the:
a. Extension.
b. Genus.
c. Species.
d. Etymology.
e. Difference.
29. In the definition “‘Metronome’ means an instrument used to mark rhythm,” the word “metronome” is the:
a. Genus.
b. Connotation.
c. Species.
d. Definiens.
e. Difference.
30. The definition “‘Anthropology’ is a word derived from the Greek anthropos meaning man and logos meaning word,
reason, or account” is an example of:
a. An etymological definition.
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b. A lexical definition.
c. A definition by subclass.
d. A persuasive definition.
e. A synonymous definition.
31. The definition “‘Colossal’ means huge” is an example of:
a. An enumerative definition.
b. An extensional definition.
c. A definition by genus and difference.
d. A definition by subclass.
e. A synonymous definition.
32. In the definition “‘Bridle’ means the headgear worn by a horse,” the term “headgear” is the:
a. Species.
b. Genus.
c. Difference.
d. Definiendum.
e. Extension.
33. The definition “A battery is ‘dead’ if and only if a battery tester shows no deflection when connected to the two poles”
is an example of:
a. A demonstrative (ostensive) definition.
b. A definition by genus and difference.
c. An operational definition.
d. A definition by subclass.
e. An enumerative definition.
34. The definition “‘Spoon’ means this and this and this” (as you point to a number of spoons) is an example of:
a. An enumerative definition.
b. A definition by subclass.
c. An operational definition.
d. A demonstrative (ostensive) definition.
e. A definition by genus and difference.
35. As a lexical definition, the definition “‘Cup’ means a container for liquid” may be criticized as being:
a. Too narrow.
b. Too broad.
c. Affective.
d. Circular.
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36. As a lexical definition, Winston Churchill’s definition “A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change
the subject” may be criticized as being:
a. Too broad.
b. Obscure.
c. Figurative.
d. Ambiguous.
e. Negative.
37. As a lexical definition, Will Rogers’ definition “A college professor is someone with a lot of big ideas that don’t work
out” may be criticized as being:
a. Affective.
b. Negative.
c. Ambiguous.
d. Obscure.
e. Vague.
38. As a lexical definition, the definition “A metal is any substance that conducts electricity and retains its shape at room
temperature” may be criticized as being:
a. Too broad.
b. Too narrow.
c. Vague.
d. Ambiguous.
e. Obscure.
39. As a lexical definition, the definition “‘Discrete’ means the condition of not being indiscrete” may be criticized as
being:
a. Too broad.
b. Ambiguous.
c. Affective.
d. Too narrow.
e. Negative.
40. As a lexical definition, the definition “A painter’s easel is an easel used by a painter” may be criticized as being:
a. Negative.
b. Too broad.
c. Vague.
d. Circular.
e. Ambiguous.