Single Idea 10143

[catalogued under 2. Reason / D. Definition / 3. Types of Definition]

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