_____ assigns a meaning to a term by naming the members of the class the term denotes.

____ are most useful when trying to reduce the vagueness of a word.

The following problems relate to identifying and evaluating inductive and deductive arguments. Select the best answer for each.

To diagram the categorical proposition "No S are P," you would darken in all of S that is overlapped by P.

"_____ is one in which the definiens is a single word that connotes the same attributes as the definiendum."

"'Physician' means doctor."

The following is not a declarative statement, and as such it is not an argument. What kind of non-inferential passage is it:

"a kind of discourse that begins with a topic sentence followed by one or more sentences that develop the topic sentence and its objective is to expand or elaborate the topic sentence."

All arguments must contain premises that are called _______.

Determine whether the following argument is inductive or deductive. Determine if the argument is deductive, inductive, valid, invalid, strong or weak.

The following definition can

be best described as ________.

‘‘Professional person’’ means a person such as a doctor, a lawyer, a professor, or an architect.