Definitions

Gupta, A., & Mackereth, S. (2023). Definitions. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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Reference work

Intellectual base

Reference work

Year

2023

Pages cited

1-1

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https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2023/entries/definitions/

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Domain-specific

• Lexical Definition
  • Gupta and Mackereth observe that dictionaries aim to impart understanding with a small amount of information and that different definitions can do this successfully without being textually identical.

Mechanisms

• Definition Note
  • It is a stipulative definition: it fixes the sense for this document rather than reporting what the word means in general.

    This sourceExplains that a stipulative definition assigns a term a meaning for a specified use rather than reporting its established general meaning.

• Individuation Criteria Charter
  • Its failure mode is that a charter records stipulative definitions — it settles by decree what a term shall mean — and a decree can be tidy and still wrong, or precise and still contested by those it binds.

    This sourceDefines a stipulative definition as assigning a meaning to a term without commitment that the assigned meaning agrees with prior usage.

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