| 16125 | To reveal a nature, divide down, and strip away what it has in common with other things [Plato] |
| 16124 | No one wants to define 'weaving' just for the sake of weaving [Plato] |
| 17237 | Definitions of things that are caused must express their manner of generation [Hobbes] |
| 16541 | All the intrinsic properties of a thing should be deducible from its definition [Spinoza] |
| 5618 | Definitions exhibit the exhaustive concept of a thing within its boundaries [Kant] |
| 18261 | A simplification which is complete constitutes a definition [Kant] |
| 13886 | Later Frege held that definitions must fix a function's value for every possible argument [Frege, by Wright,C] |
| 9821 | A definition need not capture the sense of an expression - just get the reference right [Frege, by Dummett] |
| 8368 | A correct definition is what can be substituted without loss of meaning [Ducasse] |
| 4955 | Some definitions aim to fix a reference rather than give a meaning [Kripke] |
| 15527 | Defining terms either enables elimination, or shows that they don't require elimination [Lewis] |
| 11225 | A definition needs to apply to the same object across possible worlds [Gupta] |
| 11227 | The 'revision theory' says that definitions are rules for improving output [Gupta] |
| 17774 | Definitions make our intuitions mathematically useful [Mayberry] |
| 20221 | Precision is only one of the virtues of a good definition [Zagzebski] |
| 10528 | Definitions concern how we should speak, not how things are [Fine,K] |
| 9641 | Definitions should be replaceable by primitives, and should not be creative [Brown,JR] |
| 15352 | A definition should allow the defined term to be eliminated [Horsten] |
| 16292 | An explicit definition enables the elimination of what is defined [Halbach] |