PHIL 275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Electric Skateboard, Michael Jackson, Lexical Definition
25 Sep 2013
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Lexical: the definition explains the way competent users of the word use it in its standard manner. Stipulative definition: explaining a new use to the term. The person is explaining an informal (and therefore non-standards) use of the word. Explaining slang: where the slang term has a standard use. Tight" means cool. definition would mean it is undesired or lacking approval. Bad" (when said the way micheal jackson says it) means good, while the lexical. Lexical make inu" are two words meaning defeated in dog, but the stipulative. Precising definition: defines terms that in their standard use are normally vague. Vague terms have a large penumbra of uncertainty. In the penumbra of uncertainty, there will be cases where it is not clear whether the term applies or not. They aim at reducing the vagueness that a term has in its standard use, by proposing more precise criteria for when a aterm applies to an object and when it doesn".
