Full Idea
The definitionalist errs by abstracting away from differences cosmic processes, freezing real, dynamic processes in snapshot-concepts.
Gist of Idea
Definitionalists rely on snapshot-concepts, instead of on the real processes
Source
Joseph Almog (Nature Without Essence [2010], 08)
Book Reference
-: 'Journal of Philosophy' [-], p.372
A Reaction
You could hardly do science at all if you didn't 'abstract away from the differences in cosmic processes'. We can't write about sea-waves, because they all differ slightly? 'Electron' is a snapshot concept.