Act of the Mind I - Simple Apprehension

 

The following are the notes I have taken from Peter Kreeft's wonderful Socratic Logic textbook. I highly recommend you buy it. This is a book which deals with classical logic (as opposed to modern symbolic logic.) It is easily the best overall book on logic I have ever read and one of the few I have that are worth making notes from. I even have a small duotang with these notes in it I can carry around and reference on a regular basis.

 

Five non-material characteristics of concepts:

a ) spiritual (immaterial)

b) abstract

c) universal

d) necessary

e) unchanging

 

Concepts of private (in our heads only) while terms are public.

 

 

Words are just the linguistic expressions of terms.  Words, no matter what language  they are in, express the meaning of terms.

 

Two Aspects of Terms

 

Qualitative	Quantitative
a) comprehension b) intension c)  connotation d) meaning	a) extension b) denotation c) reference d) ?

 

Classifying Terms

 

a) unambiguous or ambiguous

b) clear or unclear

c) exact or vague

d) univocal, equivical,  analogical

e) literal or metaphorical

f) positive or negative

g) simple or complex

h) categorical or syncategorymatic

i)  collective or divisive

j) absolute or relative

j) concrete or abstract

 

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