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- "Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach on the province of grammarians, and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern." - David Hume
A definition is a concise statement explaining the meaning of a term, word or phrase. The term to be defined is known as the definiendum (Latin: that which is to be defined). The form of words which defines it is known as the definiens (Latin: that which is doing the defining). A definition may be a statement of the essential properties of a certain thing, or a statement of equivalence between a term and that term's meaning. The two are not mutually exclusive, nor are they equivalent.
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See also
- Analytic proposition
- Definable set
- Definitionism
- Demonstration
- Extensional definition
- Fallacies of definition
- Indefinable
- Indeterminacy
- Intensional definition
- Lexical definition
- Ramsey–Lewis method
- Semantic
- Synthetic proposition
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