Practice Quiz 2

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Practice Quiz 2

• Truth, Facts, Theories, Definitions
• Hurley 4.1 4.2

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• Which theory seems to confuse a test for truth
  with what truth is?
• Correspondence
• Coherence
• Alethic
• Transcendental
• Experimental

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• Logicians call the bearer of truth value a
• Sentence
• Declarative sentence
• Pronouncement
• Preposition
• Proposition

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• To be polite, we should only use the word fact
  for things
• That are grounded in modern science
• That can be inspected by the mind alone
• That are easily confirmed / common knowledge
• A and B
• B and C

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• A fact is
• Any subject / predicate sentence
• Any state of affairs
• Only what is known by someone at some time
• What is expressed in a sentence
• What Jack should believe

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• Who wrote that snow is white is true if and
  only if snow is white?
• Gloria Allred
• Albert Tarnish
• Albert Finny
• Alfred North Whitehead
• Alfred Tarski

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• When we have no remaining doubts about the
  correctness of a theory, we call that theory
• The argument
• The explanation
• The illustration
• The analogy
• The Truth

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• Brittle means hard, and if struck with mild
  force, it shatters. This is an example of
• Enumerative definition
• Subclass definition
• Operational definition
• Ostensive definition
• Synonymous definition

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• Silly means goofy. This is an example of
• Enumerative definition
• Subclass definition
• Operational definition
• Ostensive definition
• Synonymous definition

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• Green, accompanied by pointing at the grass.
  This is an example of
• Enumerative definition
• Subclass definition
• Operational definition
• Ostensive definition
• Synonymous definition

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• A real definition is the definition of
• A dictionary word
• A hip, new word
• A thing, not a word
• Real, duh
• Non-fiction words

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• Dictionaries are composed entirely of
• Stipulative definitions
• Reportive definitions
• Operational definitions
• Definitions by subclass
• None of the above

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• If believing in leprechauns made you a lot of
  money and helped you accomplish your goals,
  leprechauns are real would be true on
• the pragmatic theory of truth
• the correspondence theory of truth
• the practical theory of truth
• the silly theory of truth
• the pragmatic theory of truth