Full Idea
What I call 'creative definitions' are made from a standpoint in which the existence of the objects that are to be assigned to the terms is not presupposed.
Gist of Idea
'Creative definitions' do not presuppose the existence of the objects defined
Source
Kit Fine (The Limits of Abstraction [2002], II.1)
Book Reference
Fine,Kit: 'The Limits of Abstraction' [OUP 2008], p.56