Full Idea
How do we find that 'bachelor' is defined as unmarried man? Who defined it thus, and when? Not the lexicographer, who is a scientist recording antecedent facts.
Gist of Idea
Did someone ever actually define 'bachelor' as 'unmarried man'?
Source
Willard Quine (Two Dogmas of Empiricism [1953], p.24)
Book Reference
Quine,Willard: 'From a Logical Point of View' [Harper and Row 1963], p.24
A Reaction
All mid-20th C philosophy of language is too individualistic in its strategy. Eventually later Wittgenstein sank in, and socially agreed meanings for 'water' and 'elm'.