Essential Questions

  • I. How Do We Know What We Know?
  • II. What Are The Problems of Knowledge?
  • III. What is the role of Perception in attaining Knowledge?
  • IV. How does Language influence how he gain Knowledge?
  • V. How does our use of Reason help or hinder us as we attempt to gain knowledge?
  • VI. Is Emotion the best way to gain knowledge?

Language Notes

December 16

Please post the following definitions by December 23. In your description of the term, please DEFINE it and the provide an EXAMPLE from class.

1. The Three Components of Language

Theories of Meaning
2. Definition Theory
3. Denotation Theory
4. Image Theory

Problems with Language
5. Vagueness
6. Ambiguity
7. Secondary Meaning (i.e. Denotation, Connotation and Euphemisms)
8. Metaphor
9. Irony

Problems with Translation
10. Untranslatable Words
11. Idioms

12. Labels
13. Stereotypes
14. Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Emotionally Laden Language
15. Emotive Meaning
16. Weasel Words
17. Grammar
18. Revealing and Concealing

Also, please post your notes from the Language Lecture of Mr. Pontes.

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