This document discusses sense properties and stereotypes. It defines sense properties as the essential core meaning of an expression. The three important sense properties discussed are analytic sentences, which are necessarily true due to word meanings, contradictory sentences, which are necessarily false, and synthetic sentences, which are neither necessarily true nor false. It also defines stereotypes as the typical characteristics associated with a predicate.
3. Sense
Sense of an expression is
indispensable hard core of meaning.
The sense of an expression can be
thought of as the sum of its sense
properties and sense relations with
other expressions.
For the moment, we will concentrate
on three important sense properties
of sentences, the properties of being
analytic, of being synthetic, and of
being contradictory .
4. An analytic sentence is one that is
necessarily true, as a result of the
senses of the words in it (Hurford and
Heasley, 1983:91). It means that those
belong to analytic sentences are
absolute true sentences.
Ex :
Pigeons are birds
Analytic
Sentences
5. Contradictory
Sentence
In contrast with analytic sentences,
Hurford and Heasley argue about a
contradictory sentence. A
contradiction is a sentence that is
necessarily false, as a result of the
senses of the words in it. If those
belong to analytic sentences are
absolute true sentences, then those
included in contradictory sentence.
Ex : Jellyfish are vegetables
6. Synthetic
Sentences
A sentence contains unclear
statement whether true or false.
Hurford and Heasley argue that
sentence which is not analytic, but
may be either true or false,
depends on the way the world is a
synthetic sentence.
Ex : Sukhoi Superjet 100 missed
over mt. Salak.
7. STEREOTYPE
The STEREOTYPE of a predicate is a
list of the TYPICAL characteristics of
things to which the predicate may be
applied.
The stereotype of cat would be
something like:
(Quadruped, domesticated, either
black, or white, or grey, or tortoise-
shell, or marmalade in color, or some
combination of these colors, adult
specimens about 50 cm long from
nose to tip of tail, furry, with sharp
retractable claws, etc. etc. )