Semantics

Question 1

Homophony

Answer 1

Words with same pronunciation but completely unrelated meanings

Question 2

Polysemy

Answer 2

Word has two or more related meanings

Question 3

Denotation

Answer 3

Category or set of all it’s potential referents

Question 4

Connotation

Answer 4

The set of associations that a word can evoke

Question 5

Extension

Answer 5

Set of entities that a word picks out in the world

Question 6

intention

Answer 6

Inherent meaning

Question 7

Fuzzy concepts

Answer 7

Concepts that don’t have clear cup boundaries from other concepts

Question 8

Graded concept

Answer 8

Concept whose members display varying degrees of the characteristics, some more typical than others

Question 9

Contingent

Answer 9

Sentence that is neither necessarily true nor necessarily false

Question 10

Principle of polarity

Answer 10

In given context, a declarative sentence is either true or false

Question 11

Directional opposites

Answer 11

Opposite directions on an axis

E.g. Before, after

Question 12

Complementaries

Answer 12

Either or alternatives, not scalar

E.g. Boy, girl

Question 13

Heteronym

Answer 13

More than two alternatives within a given domain (contraries)
E.g. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc

Question 14

Non-tautologies

Answer 14

Different intention but same extension

E.g. Rose is violet’s mother.

Question 15

Tautology

Answer 15

Repeating the same thing

E.g. Rose is rose.