Titlebook: Definitions and Definability: Philosophical Perspectives; James H. Fetzer,David Shatz,George N. Schlesinger Book 1991 Springer Science+Bus

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Definition in a Quinean Worldjection of analyticity still prevails — in that philosophers . have either joined Quine in repudiating the “analytic”/“synthetic” distinction or remained (however mutinously) silent and made no claims of analyticity.

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Definitions and Definabilityneralizations. Traditional accounts of definability are often vague and obscure, however, so that it is not always clear what the word stands for. Hence, it is instructive to place definitions in a more formal framework, as we shall see. Such a maneuvre brings forth sophistication which is not pract

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Towards a General Theory of Identifiabilityne-place predicate .) occurring in a theory .[.] is . on the basis of this theory iff the theory determines the interpretation of . as soon as the interpretations of the other concepts occurring in .[.] are fixed. More explicit, this is what, the definability of . on the basis of .[.] means.

insincerity

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Rational Definitions and Defining Rationality can substantially reduce these kinds of cognitive diversity. They believe that through the process of defining key terms of moral and epistemic justification they can identify and defend principles or procedures for belief adoption, retention, and rejection. These principles and procedures can then

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