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The document defines various linguistic relationships and concepts, including entailment, paraphrase, contradiction, and inclusion. It also discusses lexical ambiguity, denotation/connotation, polysemy, homonymy, part-whole relationships, and presupposition. These terms describe how meanings and relationships between statements and words function in language.

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The document defines various linguistic relationships and concepts, including entailment, paraphrase, contradiction, and inclusion. It also discusses lexical ambiguity, denotation/connotation, polysemy, homonymy, part-whole relationships, and presupposition. These terms describe how meanings and relationships between statements and words function in language.

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Entailment
a relationship that applies between two sentences, where the truth of
one implies the truth of the other because of the meanings of the
words involved
2. Paraphrase
one statement is a paraphrase of another when it has the same
meaning as another
3. Contradiction
a statement or sequence of statements is logically contradictory; that
is, if one is true, the other must be false
4. Inclusion
one statement includes another
5. Anomaly
a sentence has no meaning in the everyday world, and violates
semantic rules to create nonsense
6. Lexical ambiguity
a word allows more than one meaning in context.
7. Denotation/connotation
words have literal or referential meanings (denotation) but also evoke
feelings, attitudes, or opinions (connotations).
8. Polysemy
a word has more than one meaning out of context; the meanings are
related to one another.
9. Homonymy
two words sound and are written the same but are different in
meaning.
10. Part-whole (Meronymy)
a word denotes part of a whole.
11. Presupposition
what is assumed beforehand by an utterance, or what is taken for
granted, is said to be presupposed.

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