Title | Definitions and Definability: Philosophical Perspectives [electronic resource] / edited by James H. Fetzer, David Shatz, George N. Schlesinger |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1991 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3346-3 |
Descript | IX, 334 p. online resource |
Aspects of the Theory of Definition -- I / Preliminary Considerations -- Real and Nominal Definitions -- Primitive Concepts: Habits, Conventions, and Laws -- II / Definitional Desiderata -- Vagueness and the Desiderata for Definition -- Definition in a Quinean World -- III / Formal Developments -- Definitions and Definability -- Towards a General Theory of Identifiability -- IV / Epistemic Dimensions -- Epistemic Terms and the Aims of Epistemology -- Rational Definitions and Defining Rationality -- V / Specialized Conceptions -- Idealized Definitions in Physics and Idealized Dispositions -- Inverted Definitions and Their Uses -- VI / Disciplinary Conceptions -- Definitions in Law -- Defining the Divine -- Philosophical Analyses: An Explanation and Defense -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects