Full Idea
In Wooster as the witless bachelor and Jeeves as the crafty manservant, and one valet to the other, we will have the counterpart, within the framework of real definition, to the simultaneous definition of two terms.
Gist of Idea
Maybe two objects might require simultaneous real definitions, as with two simultaneous terms
Source
Kit Fine (Ontological Dependence [1995], III)
Book Reference
-: 'Aristotelian Society' [], p.283
A Reaction
This is wonderful grist to the mill of scientific essentialism, which endeavours to produce an understanding through explanation of the complex interactions of nature.