PROTOTYPES, EXTENSION, STEREOTYPES, SYNONYMY

Which of the following is an analytic sentence?

• Anna loves cakes.

• Cakes are made of flour, milk, eggs and butter.

• Cone is the best type of cakes.

Which of the following is synthetic sentence?

• Tom cat loves fish.

• Cats chase mice.

• That's my cat.

Which of the following is a contradiction?

• My brother's Dave's girlfriend.

• It's easy to climb a mountain.

• Sea water is salty.

"Queens are servants." is a...

• analytic sentence.

• synthetic sentence.

• contradiction.

"Queens are female." is a...

• analytic sentence.

• synthetic sentence.

• contradiction.

"Queens are cruel." is a...

• analytic sentence.

• synthetic sentence.

• contradiction.

"Pointy ears" are ... of the predicate "cat". "Animal, pointy ears, has a tail, chases rats" are ....of the predicate "cat".

• a necessary condition/ a sufficient set of conditions

• a sufficient set of conditions/a necessary condition

Choose the correct statement.

• A prototype is an object.

• A stereotype is an object.

• A prototype is a list of charaters.

Which of the following best defines a “prototype” in semantics?

• A typical or most representative member of a category.

• A stereotype associated with a specific social group

• A technical definition of a word.

• The set of all possible meanings a word can have.

Extension and sense pertain to all examples while prototype and stereotype pertain to typical examples.

• True

• False