MODR 1711 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Phenome, Collectively Exhaustive Events
19 Apr 2016
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A concept is an idea while the referents are the class of things a concept stands for. For example, dog is a concept while labrador is a referent. Also, all the referents included in dog are also included in animal (which includes many other things) Animal is a broader concept because it includes more than the narrower concept dog. The broader concept, or animal, is called a genus because it has various subcategories. The narrower concept is called the species (example: cat, dog, lion, etc. : genus-species relationship, species can also be a genus. They are relative terms such as mother and. Your mother is also a daughter in relation to her parents: thus, a concept can either be a genus or a species depending on our perspective, referents. However, species is less abstract than the genius it belongs to. 1. 2 rules of classification: first rule of classification, species must not overlap.
