Keep three questions in mind:
1. Does the word indicate its whole assigned meaning? Mutabaqah.
2. Does it indicate an included component of that meaning? Tadammun.
3. Does it indicate a separate necessary implication? Iltizam.
For “human,” the book gives rational animal (whole), animal or rational (part), and capacity for knowledge (implication). Next, the text turns to simple and compound expressions, where these distinctions will remain useful.
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Final memory aid: three questions
The Three Kinds of Conventional Verbal Indication
Keep three questions in mind:
1. Does the word indicate its whole assigned meaning? Mutabaqah.
2. Does it indicate an included component of that meaning? Tadammun.
3. Does it indicate a separate necessary implication? Iltizam.
For “human,” the book gives rational animal (whole), animal or rational (part), and capacity for knowledge (implication). Next, the text turns to simple and compound expressions, where these distinctions will remain useful.