Monday, February 23, 2009

Chapter two summaries ENG 75 (TFY)

Chapter two summaries ENG75 (TFY)
In this chapter the author discusses the word precision, important things he had mentioned. To improve your thinking try to use accurate words, words enable us to communicate with others and ourselves, one of the best to make a rich foundation of words and know how to use them is the writing, and it helps us to describe our thoughts. Clear understanding needs clear thinking and word clarification by understand what benefits can we get from the dictionary, our ability to use a number of different flexible perspective is based partly to the fact that can be stretched, this flexibility is in fact closely related to the flexibility that occurs in the meaning of the word, the meaning of most words is largely determined by the contrast of one word with others, related words. The boundaries of the meaning of a word are not fixed with perfect precision, so it’s best to start by asking when we can rightly use a word. A new word or an old word used in a new sense remains quite vague unless there is an explicit definition. And if there is one, we can ask where the vague boundaries are in the terms used in the definition itself. Such questions will serve to alert us to fallacies or untested presuppositions that sometimes slip in because of movable boundaries. Reading critically allows us to think clearly and understand effectively.

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