Six Kinds of Signification and the Three Modes of Verbal Convention
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- What relation is central to the technical definition of signification?
- In “Zayd” signifying the named person, what is the sign?
- On what basis is signification classified as verbal or nonverbal?
- What makes signification verbal and conventional?
- Why does the text classify an involuntary “akh, akh” as verbally natural?
- Hearing speech behind a wall and inferring a speaker is which kind?
- A red flag indicating danger by agreed code is what kind of sign?
- How does the book classify a horse’s neigh indicating a need?
- Smoke indicating fire represents which classification?
- A word conveys its meaning and also suggests a speaker. What differs?
- Which kind does the logician principally discuss in this text?
- Which three modes subdivide verbal conventional signification?
- “Human” signifying the entire “rational animal” is which mode?
- “Human” signifying only animality, a component of the definition, is what?
- What is signified in iltizām?
- Why is recalling your cupboard on hearing “book” not normally iltizām?
- Human capacity for writing, without actually being a writer, shows what?
- What does blindness invoking sight mean in the discussion?
- What does “part” mean in taḍammun?
- Why may the same word exemplify all three modes?
- Why do taḍammun and iltizām presuppose muṭābaqah?
- What possibility does the book use to explain muṭābaqah without taḍammun?
- What is central to the commentary’s response about concomitants?
- Someone says “pen” and the listener understands its established meaning. Classify the relation.
- Why is a traffic light commanding “stop” conventional?
- How are the six broad types related to the three subordinate modes?
- In verbal rational signification, the utterance may indicate a speaker rather than its lexical meaning.
- Taḍammun always indicates the entire meaning assigned to a word.
- Any accidental personal association is enough for iltizām.
- The text allows that muṭābaqah may occur without taḍammun or iltizām.