A Class Room Logic: Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of TeachingMcNair, George Hastings
Philosophy
A Class Room Logic: Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching
McNair, George Hastings
Logic
(13) So far as your present knowledge of the martyred president
Abraham Lincoln is concerned, is the term _Abraham Lincoln_
connotative or non-connotative?
(14) Are non-connotative terms always singular? Illustrate.
(15) Are singular terms always non-connotative?
(16) What is the difference in meaning between immoral and unmoral,
disagreeable and not-agreeable?
(17) Why is immoral a nego-positive term while unmoral is negative?
(18) What is the contradictory of the opposite of _wise_?
(19) Show that there is some ground for believing all terms to be
relative.
(20) Is _army_ a relative term? If “army” were used so as to be
distributive in nature would it then be general or collective?
(21) Why should the pronoun be ignored by the logician?
(22) Show the difference between thing and subject.
(23) Argue to the effect that no term can be non-connotative.
CHAPTER 5.
THE EXTENSION AND INTENSION OF TERMS.
=1. TWO-FOLD FUNCTION OF CONNOTATIVE TERMS. (See page 52.)=
It has been indicated that a connotative term is one which possesses
the double function of signifying a subject as well as an attribute.
It may be observed here that an attribute of a notion is any mark,
property or characteristic of that notion. Attribute, then, represents
quality, relation or quantity. By a subject is meant anything which
possesses attributes. Most subjects stand for objects and most
attributes are qualities; consequently, for the sake of simplicity,
we may use subject and object interchangeably; likewise, attribute and
quality.
A connotative term, therefore, denotes an object at the same time
it implies a quality. To illustrate: The symbol _man_ stands for the
various individual men of the world, such as Lincoln, Washington,
Alfred the Great, etc., or for certain qualities like rationality,
power of speech and power of locomotion. The connotative term _teacher_
may be used to _denote_ Socrates, Pestalozzi, Thomas Arnold, or
_connote_ such qualities as ability to instruct, sympathy, and
scholarship. The term _planet_ stands for such objects as Venus, Earth,
and Mars, and for such qualities as rotation upon axis, revolution
about sun, and opaque or semi-opaque bodies. In each of the three
illustrations the term is employed in the two-fold sense of denoting
objects and of implying qualities.
=2. EXTENSION AND INTENSION DEFINED.=
This double function of connotative terms furnishes an important
topic for the student of logic――the Extension and Intension of Terms.
In short, some authorities claim that to master the extension and
intension of terms is virtually to master the entire subject of
logic. Though this position may be an exaggerated one, yet it tends
to emphasize the importance of the topic.
_A term is used in extension when it is employed with reference to the
objects for which the term stands._
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