9. Sense Properties and stereotypes
• Objective :
• Students are able to compose analytic,
synthetic sentences and contradiction as
well as able to explain the characteristics of
each sentence.
• Students are able to give examples of
stereotypes of a predicate
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Sense of Properties and Stereotypes
• Topics:
– Sense of Properties
• Analytical sentence
• Synthetic sentence
• Contradiction
– Stereotypes
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9. SENSE PROPERTIES AND
STEREOTYPES
• SENSE PROPERTIES
• Analytic. Synthesis and Contradiction
• STEREOTYPES
• The stereotype of a predicate is the list of
the typical characteristics of the predicate.
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ANALYTIC, SYNTHETIC AND
CONTRADICTION
ARE THESE SENTENCES TRUE?
Why are they true/false
A cat is an animal
A cat is a mammal
I saw a cat yesterday
I like cats
A cat is a vegetable
A cat has two legs
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ANALYTIC, SYNTHETIC AND
CONTRADICTION
Why are they true/false
A cat is an animal
A cat
-Animal
-Having 4 legs
-Mammal
-The sense of cat includes in the sense of animal
He likes cats
The truth depends on the situation
A cat is a vegetable
The meaning of cat does not include in the sense
of vegetable
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ANALYTIC, SYNTHETIC AND
CONTRADICTION
Analytic sentence : the sentence is
always true because of
of the senses of the words in the sentence
Synthetic sentence : the truth depends on the fact
Contradiction
: the sentence is always false because of
the sense of the words in the sentence
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Conclusion
analytic
Sense Properties
synthetic
contradiction
stereotypes
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