Combining Texts

Ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'What is Logic?' and 'Identity'

unexpand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

1 idea

2. Reason / D. Definition / 3. Types of Definition

13838	A decent modern definition should always imply a semantics [Hacking]
	Full Idea: Today we expect that anything worth calling a definition should imply a semantics.
	From: Ian Hacking (What is Logic? [1979], §10)
	A reaction: He compares this with Gentzen 1935, who was attempting purely syntactic definitions of the logical connectives.