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Outline : ' Spring 2015 ' Final Exam ' Essay

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bdulaziz Alsheikh
Philosophy 110
Spring 2015
Final Exam:
I- Definitions:
Please give substantive definitions of the following (worth 3 points each):
1. Ad Hominem:
Appealing to someone’s prejudices, emotions and other interests rather than to someone’s intellect or reason. Ad hominem also means attacking an opponent’s character instead of answering his argument
2. Universal Negative:
Also referred as the No Statement. it’s a universal proposition that denies something of all members of a class. No S (Subject) are P (Predicate). In light of universal negative, there are areas where you have things that are both S and P because all the statement saying is that there are no things that are both S and P so we can shade the area to show that there is nothing there.
3. Propositional Logic: it’s a formal deduction system in which formulae representing propositions can be formed by combining atomic propositions using logical connectives.
4 Disjunct: One of many propositions, any of which, if true, confirm the validity of another proposition ( a disjuction).

5. Copula:
A word used to link the subject f a sentence with a predicate that associates the subject with the predicate.
6. Red Herring :
A clue or information that is intended to be misleading and diverts attention from a question.
7. Predicate term:
The generic term for symbolic formal systems like first-order logic, second-order logic and many-sorted logic or infinitary logic.
8. Correlation:
A reciprocal,

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