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Full Idea
The notion of one object depending upon another is the real counterpart to the nominal notion of one term being definable in terms of another.
Gist of Idea
Dependency is the real counterpart of one term defining another
Source
Kit Fine (Ontological Dependence [1995], II)
Book Ref
-: 'Aristotelian Society' [], p.275
A Reaction
This begins to fill out the Aristotelian picture very nicely, since definitions are right at the centre of the nature of things (though a much more transitional part of the story than Fine seems to think).