- words. The word or
group of
words that is to be
defined is
called the
definiendum, and the word,
group of words, or
action that
defines it is
called the...
-
definition which is also
predicable of
other things different from the
definiendum. E.g.,
figure in the definition: A
triangle is a
rectilinear figure....
- interpretation,
lawmakers (codificators)
sometimes deviate from
etymological (
definiendum plus definientia) definitions. In
doing so, they
approach the term from...
-
descriptive one. The
speaker can quasi-define a word by
qualifying the
definiendum without setting forth what the term
actually means. For instance, we...
- affinitive, affinity, confine, confinement, confines, confinity, define,
definiendum, definiens, definite, definition, definitive, equifinality, final, finality...
-
Introduction to
Logic and to the
Methodology of
Deductive Sciences,
Oxford University Press, §53 "Definitions
whose definiendum contains the
identity sign"...
- to the one
being defined; indeed, in
every definition definiens and
definiendum are
equivalent notions, and the
strict observance of Poincaré's demand...
-
definition that
incorporates a lexeme's
semantic actants (for example, the
definiendum of give
takes the form X
gives Y to Z,
where its
three actants are expressed...
- part of a
definition which is
predicable in a
given genus only of the
definiendum; or the
corresponding "metaphysical part" of the object. In the original...
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Defeasible reasoning Defeater Defeatism Defensive democracy Defensivism Definiendum Definiens Defining Issues Test
Definist fallacy Definite clause grammar...
