Title: Recognizing Faulty Definitions
1Recognizing Faulty Definitions
Chapter 4.b
- This tutorial gives you practice in identifying
four common types of definitions lexical,
stipulative, precising, and persuasive.
2- Fossil means any remains, impression, or trace of
an - animal or plant of a former geological age, as a
skeleton, - footprint, etc.
Based on your reading of this chapter, what type
of definition is this?
3Fossil means any remains, impression, or trace of
an animal or plant of a former geological age, as
a skeleton, footprint, etc.
Lexical. The purpose of a lexical definition is
to report the way a word is standardly used in a
language. Most definitions found in a dictionary
are lexical definitions.
4Teenager means a human being, aged 13-19, with a
large capacity to take rampant and meaningless
criticism from older people who know nothing
about them.
Based on your reading of this chapter, what type
of definition is this?
5Teenager means a human being, aged 13-19, with a
large capacity to take rampant and meaningless
criticism from older people who know nothing
about them.
Persuasive. A persuasive definition is a
slanted, biased definition. The purpose of a
persuasive definition is to influence people's
attitudes, not to neutrally and objectively
capture the standard meaning of a word.
6Sugarnecker means someone who holds up the coffee
line by insisting on adding multiple packets of
sugar to his or her coffee while standing in
line.
Based on your reading of this chapter, what type
of definition is this?
7Sugarnecker means someone who holds up the coffee
line by insisting on adding multiple packets of
sugar to his or her coffee while standing in
line.
Stipulative. A stipulative definition stipulates
(i.e., assigns) a meaning to a word by coining a
new word or giving an old word a new meaning.
8Light (or lite) foods, according to USDA
standards, are foods that contain at least
one-third fewer calories than comparable products
Based on your reading of this chapter, what type
of definition is this?
9Light (or lite) foods, according to USDA
standards, are foods that contain at least
one-third fewer calories than comparable products
Precising. A precising definition takes a word
that is normally vague (e.g., lite, low-income,
or middle-aged) and gives it a clear, precisely
defined meaning.
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- This is the end of the tutorial