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Ideas for 'Intro to Naming,Necessity and Natural Kinds', 'Goodbye Growing Block' and 'The Limits of Abstraction'

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 1. Definitions

5831	The new view is that "water" is a name, and has no definition [Schwartz,SP]

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

9143	Implicit definitions must be satisfiable, creative definitions introduce things, contextual definitions build on things [Fine,K, by Cook/Ebert]

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'Creative definitions' do not presuppose the existence of the objects defined [Fine,K]