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Non-human languages, on the other hand, may provide a degree of definiential precision (e.g., water 'H2O', three '3'), but they have extremely limited applicability. Definitions written in a human metalanguage all result in vicious circles, as if […]
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In particular, both Cone [12] and Krenek 123] seem to undervalue the object-language metalanguage distinction in their worry over whether terms introduced with all due definiential care are the "intuitively right" ones, meta-linguistically, for ...
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It is clear enough that Plato influenced Aristotle's theory of definition quite generally, but the problem of definitional, better definiential, unity that Aristotle tackles in two central chapters in the Metaphysics seems to be widely regarded as a purely Aristotelian problem […]
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