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    This document classifies terms into three categories: 1. According to exactness - terms can be univocal, analogous, or equivocal depending on whether they are used in precisely the same, similar figurative, or multiple different meanings. 2. According to comprehension - terms can be positive, negative, complex, privative, abstract, simple, or relative based on what they express or comprise. 3. According to opposition - terms can be contradictory, contrary, or paradoxical depending on whether their meanings completely oppose or allow for middle ground between each other, or seem contradictory but are reconcilable.

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    This document classifies terms into three categories: 1. According to exactness - terms can be univocal, analogous, or equivocal depending on whether they are used in precisely the same, similar figurative, or multiple different meanings. 2. According to comprehension - terms can be positive, negative, complex, privative, abstract, simple, or relative based on what they express or comprise. 3. According to opposition - terms can be contradictory, contrary, or paradoxical depending on whether their meanings completely oppose or allow for middle ground between each other, or seem contradictory but are reconcilable.

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    This document classifies terms into three categories: 1. According to exactness - terms can be univocal, analogous, or equivocal depending on whether they are used in precisely the same, similar figurative, or multiple different meanings. 2. According to comprehension - terms can be positive, negative, complex, privative, abstract, simple, or relative based on what they express or comprise. 3. According to opposition - terms can be contradictory, contrary, or paradoxical depending on whether their meanings completely oppose or allow for middle ground between each other, or seem contradictory but are reconcilable.

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    Classification of Terms

    I. Terms according to Exactness

    a) UNIVOCAL TERMS: are terms which are used in precisely the same sense or
    meaning in a given context.

    Examples: Rock-Stone , Cell phones-Mobile phones, Kids-Children

    b)ANALOGOUS TERM: are terms which are commonly used in figures of


    speech.
    Examples: Hands of the clock, Ears of corn, Foot of the mountain

    b) EQUIVOCAL TERMS: are those which are used in two or more different
    meanings.

    Examples: Light (the opposite of heavy) Light (as something produced by


    electricity), Star (refers to heavenly body) Star (refers to movie celebrity)

    II. Terms according to Comprehension

    1. POSITIVE TERMS: are those which express an affirmation of a particular thing.


    Examples: Service to mankind, dedication to one’s duty, love of one self, love of neighbour

    2.NEGATIVE TERMS: are those that express the absence or negation of a thing.
    Examples: Unkind, unmerciful, unreasonable, inconsiderate,

    3. COMPLEX TERMS: are those which have more than one word.
    Examples: The President of the Philippines, Mayor of Bacolod City, Governor of Negros
    Occidental

    4. PRIVATIVE TERMS: are actually negative terms that denote the absence (or a perfection in a
    being that ought to have what it does not have).
    Examples: Blindness, deafness, muteness, sickness

    5. ABSTRACT TERMS: are those which express abstract ideas.


    Examples :tableness, chairness, metalness

    6. SIMPLE TERMS: are those which consist of a single word.


    Examples: mother,sister, cat,cow, etc.

    7. RELATIVE TERMS: are those wherein one cannot be understood without the other.
    Examples: mother-child, teacher-student, boyfriend-girlfriend, master-servant

    III. According to Opposition

    1. CONTRADICTORY TERMS are terms which are so opposed to each other in terms of their
    meanings so that when we accept one of the terms we have to reject the other.
    Examples: Absent-Present ,True-False, Check-Wrong

    2.CONTRARY TERMS are terms like contradictory terms since they too are opposed to each
    other in terms of their meanings, BUT admit middle ground or possibility for their relation.
    Examples: Pro-For Middle Ground: Neutral
    Easy-Hard Middle Ground: Normal

    3. PARADOXICAL TERMS: are those that seem to be contradictory terms, yet, they are
    combinable or reconcilable.
    Examples: Consistent inconsistency, Bodily present but mentally absent

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