- 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....
- 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"...
- 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...
- what the new
extension for the
definiendum G {\displaystyle G}
should be,
given a
hypothetical extension of the
definiendum and
information concerning the...
-
descriptive one. The
speaker can quasi-define a word by
qualifying the
definiendum without setting forth what the term
actually means. For instance, we...
- as a
special sort of relation)
Dedekindian complete (relation) *214
definiendum The
symbol being defined definiens The
meaning of
something being defined...
- nunc et in
posterum perpetuo suffragari;
sicque rite
iudicandum esse ac
definiendum;
irritumque ex nunc et
inane fieri, si
quidquam secus super his, a quovis...
- to the one
being defined; indeed, in
every definition definiens and
definiendum are
equivalent notions, and the
strict observance of Poincaré's demand...
