30 CÂU HỎI
Which of the following has the correct entailment?
A. Bill didn’t see a person entails Bill saw a boy.
B. Bill didn’t see a boy entails Bill didn’t see a person.
C. Bill didn’t see a boy entails Bill saw a person.
D. Bill didn’t see a person entails Bill didn’t see a boy.
Which of the following involves a set of things?
A. Sense
B. Prototype
C. Reference
D. Extension
The men John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan are related to the term President of the US as follows:
A. Kennedy and Reagan are hyponyms of President of the US.
B. Kennedy and Reagan are part of the extension of President of the US.
C. Kennedy and Reagan are stereotypes of President of the US.
D. Kennedy and Reagan are superordinates of President of the US.
Which of the following is the synthetic sentence?
A. Bachelors are innocent men.
B. Bachelors are not human beings.
C. Bachelors are never married.
D. Bachelors are male.
Which of the following expressions of the sentence "The present Prime Minister of Viet Nam is Nguyen Tan Dung" DOES NOT have constant reference?
A. Nguyen Tan Dung
B. Viet Nam
C. The present Prime Minister of Viet Nam
D. a and b
Which of the following is NOT independent of circumstance or particular occasions or topic of conversation?
A. Sense
B. Variable reference
C. Constant reference
D. Extension
Which of the following can be in a particular regional accent?
A. Sentence
B. Utterance
C. Proposition
D. a and c
Which of the following is the contradiction?
A. Bachelors are male.
B. Bachelors are not reptiles.
C. Bachelors are not human beings.
D. Bachelors are lonely.
Which of the following expressions is a proposition?
A. My sick cat that is lying on the armchair over there
B. John Lennon, who was assassinated in 1980 by a madman
C. A man is walking along the street.
D. A lovely cat (not understood as an elliptical sentence)
Which of the following expressions of the sentence "Osama bin Laden is hiding in Afghanistan" is the predicator?
A. Osama bin Laden
B. Afghanistan
C. Hide
D. a and b
Which of the following utterances would be the most appropriate?
A. Please get me a cup of coffee.
B. Please take me a cup of coffee.
C. Please take him to me.
D. Please go to me with a cup of coffee.
Which of the following is NOT a generic sentence?
A. The bear never eats the dead body.
B. The bear is the animal that typically hibernates during winter.
C. The bear in that cage cannot swim.
D. The bear likes honey of the bee.
Which of the following describes the relation between (A) and (B)?
(A) Fester stole 5 dollars.
(B) Fester took 5 dollars.
A. (A) and (B) are paraphrases.
B. (A) entails (B).
C. (A) and (B) share the same set of entailments.
D. All of the above.
Which of the following DOES NOT refer to the thing or person being talked about in the context of the utterance?
A. Variable reference
B. Extension
C. Reference
D. None of the above
Which of the following DOES NOT mention a connection of language to the world?
A. Extension
B. Prototype
C. Stereotype
D. All of the above
Which of the following has the abstract specification pertaining to a typical example?
A. Extension
B. Prototype
C. Stereotype
D. All of the above
Which of the following is an example of the statement: Some sentences which contain ambiguous words are ambiguous?
A. Flying plane can be dangerous.
B. You’re so kind to me.
C. You’re that kind.
D. Visiting relatives can be boring.
Which of the following pairs are NOT gradable antonyms?
A. Love - hate
B. Hot - cold
C. Ugly - beautiful
D. Pass - fail
Which of the following is correct?
A. Analyticity is a sense property of predicates.
B. Contradiction is a sense relation between predicates.
C. Syntheticity is a sense property of a sentence.
D. Contradiction is a sense relation between sentences.
Which of the following pairs illustrates symmetric entailment?
A. Mary broke all the dishes and Mary didn’t break all the plates.
B. Mary hid all the dishes and Mary concealed all the dishes.
C. Mary hid all the plates and Mary did not conceal all the dishes.
D. Both A and C
Which of the following is an example of the statement: Some sentences which contain ambiguous words can be ambiguous?
A. It’s a colorful ball.
B. He gave her a gold ring yesterday.
C. He is really so kind to me.
D. I sawed a rotten branch of the ash tree in my garden.
The expression "William Shakespeare" in the sentence "William Shakespeare is one of the greatest playwrights in English Literature" has constant reference because:
A. It occurs in an equative sentence.
B. It can be used to refer to different potential referents.
C. It never refers to different things or different persons.
D. It is not a referring expression.
Which of the following cases has the universe of discourse as the real world?
A. Mother to child: If you don’t behave properly, the dragon will come, boy.
B. Mother to child: Barking dogs seldom bite, son.
C. Mother to child: Santa Claus will bring you a lot of toys.
D. Mother to child: Don’t follow that barking dog because he is a witchdoctor.
Which of the following pairs of expressions is binary?
A. Same - different
B. Give - take
C. Conceal - reveal
D. Beautiful - ugly
Which of the following is analytic?
A. The pentagon is six-sided.
B. A horse is not a mammal.
C. My cat is not an animal.
D. My snake is a reptile.
Which of the following pairs are NOT gradable antonyms?
A. Love - hate
B. Far - near
C. Cat - dog
D. Easy - difficult
Which of the following pairs are hyponym - superordinate?
A. Daisy - sunflower
B. Son - father
C. Give - take
D. Kill - cause to die
Which of the following has the relation between pairs of predicates necessarily symmetric?
A. Entailment
B. Paraphrase
C. Synonymy
D. Hyponymy
Which of the following most appropriately DOES NOT describe the reference?
A. Reference is the relationship between certain uttered expressions and certain things in a particular context of the utterance.
B. Reference is the relationship between utterances and the world.
C. Reference is the relationship between certain uttered expressions and things in the world.
D. Reference is the relationship between the sense properties of a predicate.
Which of the following expressions of the sentence "My son moved to Danang in 1997" has the variable reference?
A. My son
B. Danang
C. Move
D. In