Suppose a teacher asks for the full assigned meaning of “human,” and you answer “rational animal.”
Step 1: The word is human.
Step 2: Its full assigned concept is rational animal.
Step 3: The indicated meaning is that entire concept, so this is mutabaqah.
“Whole” means the complete assigned concept, not every possible fact about every human being.
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The Three Kinds of Conventional Verbal Indication
Suppose a teacher asks for the full assigned meaning of “human,” and you answer “rational animal.”
Step 1: The word is human.
Step 2: Its full assigned concept is rational animal.
Step 3: The indicated meaning is that entire concept, so this is mutabaqah.
“Whole” means the complete assigned concept, not every possible fact about every human being.