Semantics

Question 1

Referents

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An actual entity or an individual in the world to which expression refers

Question 2

Mental image

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A conception of a word’s sense as a picture in the mind of the language user that represents its meaning

Question 3

Pryotype

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For any given set, a member that exhibits the typical qualities of members of that set

Question 4

Usage-based definintions

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A characterization of a words sense based on the way that the word is used by speakers of a language

Question 5

Hyponymy

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A meaning relationship between words where the reference of some word is included in the reference of some other word.

Question 6

Hypernym

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Meaning relationship between words converse of hyponym

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Synonymy

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A meaning relationship between words where their reference is exactly the same

Question 8

Antonymy

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Meaning relationship between words when the definition is somewhat opposite

Question 9

Reverses

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Pairs of words that suggest movement where one word in the pair suggests movement that undoes the movement suggested by the other

Question 10

Converses

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Two opposing points of view or a change in perspective

Question 11

Proposition

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The claim expressed. Y a sentence

Question 12

Truth value

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The ability to be true or false

Question 13

Entailment

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A relationship between propositions where a proposition is said to entail another proposition

Question 14

Pure intersection

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The relationship between the reference of an adjective and a noun it modifies such that each picks out a particular group of things

Question 15

Intersective adjectives

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Adjectives that produce pure intersections

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Relative intersection

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Reference of the adjective has to be determined relative to the reference of the noun

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Subjective adjectives

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An adjective whose reference is included in the set of things that the noun it modifies refers to

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Non-intersection

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An adjective whose reference is a subset of the set that the noun it modifies refers to

Question 19

Anti-intersection adjectives

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An adjective whose referents are not in the set referred to by the noun that it modifies

Question 20

Sense

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A mental representation of an expression’s meaning

Question 21

Reference

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A component of linguistic meaning that relates to entities in the outside world

Question 22

Sister terms

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Words that in terms of their reference are at the same level in the hierarchy

Question 23

Complementary antonyms

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Pair of antonyms such that everything must be described by the first word, the second word, or neither;

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Gradable antonyms

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Words that are antonyms and denote opposite ends of a scale

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Truth conditions

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The conditions that would have to hold in the world in order for some proposition to be tur

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Incompatible

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Imposssible for two propositions to be true

Question 27

Semantics

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Sub field of linguistics that studies linguistic meaning and how expressions convey meanings

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Lexical semantics

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A sub field of semantics that studies meanings of lexical expressions

Question 29

Compositional semantics

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Sub field of semantics that studies the meanings of pheasant expressions and how those meanings arise given the meanings of the lexical expressions they contain and how they are syntactically combined

Question 30

Mutual entailment

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The relationship between two propositions where the entail one another