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The Logical Structures

The document describes the different types of logical structures that allow for knowledge, including concepts, judgments, and reasoning. It explains that concepts refer to objects in thought and enable a deeper understanding of reality. Concepts can be universal, singular, particular, categorematic, or syncategorematic. It also describes the inverse relationship between the comprehension and extension of concepts.

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The Logical Structures

The document describes the different types of logical structures that allow for knowledge, including concepts, judgments, and reasoning. It explains that concepts refer to objects in thought and enable a deeper understanding of reality. Concepts can be universal, singular, particular, categorematic, or syncategorematic. It also describes the inverse relationship between the comprehension and extension of concepts.

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The Logical Structures

What are the 3 logical degrees in the process of knowledge?


The concept, the judgment, and the reasoning.
2. What is the concept and what does it refer to?
It is a logical element that refers to an object and is presented in the plane.
of thought.
What do we obtain through concepts?
We gain a deeper understanding of objective reality through
the research of its essential parts.
4. What does the concept allow us to know?
It allows for a deeper understanding of reality, because it is a conclusion that
it is found beyond what is given to us directly in experience
sensory.
5. Where is human thought moving?
It moves from less abstract concepts to more abstract ones.
abstract in this sense, we can talk about the division of concepts and
generals.
What is an image?
It is an immediate mental representation of an object.
What is the idea?
The idea is, the knowledge we have of things is the truth that
represented the concept.
8. What do concepts and judgments express? Give examples.
All concepts and judgments have a content that expresses the idea that
we have what was thought.
Ejemplos: ´´Casa´´, Mi casa es roja (estoy relacionando dos conceptos).
9. What is the extension of the concept? Give examples.
It is the reference that the concept makes to a certain class of objects that
fall under the corresponding term.
Example: In the case of the word 'Woman', it has as extension the
the expression 'women' refers to a plurality of beings that have certain
specific characteristics that determine them as such.
10. What is the relationship between comprehension and extension?
concept? Give an example
Between the understanding and the extent of the concept, there is an inverse relationship of
so that, a concept that has greater understanding corresponds to a
less extension; and if the concept has a greater extension, it corresponds to
a lower compression.
Example: The term 'dog' has a greater understanding than the term 'animal.'
and the term 'animal' has a broader understanding than the term 'dog'.
[Link] the types of concepts
Universal concept
2. Singular or individual concepts
3. Specific Concepts
4. Categorematic
5. Sincategorematic
12. What does the universal concept refer to? Give examples.
It refers to a plural totality of objects that share common qualities.
identical.
Examples: If we take the term woman as an example, this concept encompasses
a plural total of objects that refer to the entire human species; it is
to say, refers to all individuals who share common traits or notes
characteristics that determine them as such.
13. What are particular concepts? Give examples.
This type of concepts differs from universal concepts: because
they refer to a part of the extension of the concept, also
they comprise a single individual of an indeterminate and limited.
Example: In the case of the concept woman, part of its extension is some
women. Also, particular concepts can refer to a single
individual in an indefinite and limited way, for example, some woman.
This case refers to a single individual.
14. What are individual or singular concepts? Give examples.
They refer to a single individual or thing that is limited to a single object, individual or
unique event.
Example: Student, organ, tree.
15. What are categorematic concepts?
They are those concepts that designate an object or a thing that by itself
it means something.
Ejemplos: Árbol, casa, silla, hombre, animal, juventud, amor, alegría.
16. What are syncategorematic concepts?
They need to associate with other terms to be understandable; in other words, have
meaning.
Examples: Therefore, then, none, no matter how much, everything, some, or, but, etc.

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