Definitions
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- noun The word or words serving to define another word or expression, as in a dictionary entry.
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- noun semantics The word or phrase that
defines thedefiniendum in adefinition .
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More generally, it’s the expression to be defined, as opposed to the definiens, which is the phrase doing the defining.
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More generally, it’s the expression to be defined, as opposed to the definiens, which is the phrase doing the defining.beamishQuote
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M. Whittaker says: surely verbum definiendum, clausa definiens if you un-distill the sense.
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Substituting the definiens of (EDR) into (SUB) then delivers the following principle:
Ontological Dependence Lowe, E. Jonathan 2009
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It would, of course, be easy enough to modify (EDR) 's definiens to read ˜y is not identical with x and, necessarily, x exists only if
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The definiens in (EDR) is equivalent, of course, to
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(EDX) 's definiens should not be understood as implying that an object x may not dependX for its existence upon two (or more) different things, y and
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However, the relations corresponding to such predicates are strictly weaker than PP and PE and no biconditional is provable in M that would yield a corresponding definiens of
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(If we believe in the existence of universals, then we should clearly add to the definiens ˜and universals that are exemplified by x™.)
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This time, substituting the definiens of (EDR) into (P2) gives us:
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