What are stipulative definitions? Many topics revolve around defining something contrary or otherwise than the original definition. Much talk about what is meant by what a person is posting can be avoided by expressing what we mean by saying …

2018年12月17日 · A stipulative definition is a type of definition in which a new or currently-existing term is given a new specific meaning for the purposes of argument or discussion in a given context. When the term already exists, this definition may, but does not necessarily, contradict the dictionary (lexical) definition of the term. Because of this, a stipulative definition cannot be …

I wanted to ask the moderators if they can be cognizant when seeing a thread about God or language, that a stipulative definition become clear. Instead of bogging down in straw men that are created from these stipulative definitions that might be professed unconsciously, then it …

2019年6月5日 · I'm suggesting it's like a stipulative definition in mathematics, let x be the unique solution to f (x) = 0, where we can say that it's necessarily true that f (x) = 0 even though if we later discover that f (x) has no solutions or multiple ones then we learn that our talk about x simply doesn't make any sense at all.

2022年12月23日 · The great Wittegenstein went on record to say that ostensive definitions are, to put it in vernacular, no good. It's part of his famous private language argument. His argument goes something like this: If I point to a wooden chair, a wooden ladel, a wooden toy, and say "wood", a listener could...

Kant holds the view of "transcendental idealism"; that is, the view that, humans cognize things they way that they appear to us, not as they are in themselves. Now if someone equates this view with "solipsism" (the view that only the "I" exists), and uses this term as a stipulative definition to...

2020年2月9日 · This a plea for a definitions section in most OPs and wherever else useful or appropriate, whether formal or informal, or established or preliminary or tentative. I'm persuaded that most who post to TPF neither know what a definition is nor what they're for. The evidence is many, many threads...

What is some good definitions of abstraction? Some people seem to use the term to refer to something that is ambiguous or not defined. An example of what people sometimes say is: love is such an abstract concept. All they really say is that the …

Yes, resigning oneself to the way things are is a coping skill? I mean, embracing depression entails that one accept or resign oneself to the cards dealt by fate. Is this a stipulative suggestion to think of coping in these terms or self-refuting?

2020年7月26日 · Look up the definition of a word in the dictionary. Then look up the definition of each of the words in that definition. Iterate. Given that there are a finite number of words in the dictionary, the process will eventually lead to repetition. If one's goal were to understand a word, one might...