stipulative

• “Saul Kripke (1980) has drawn attention to a special kind of stipulative definition.”

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• “This distinction between hand and organ for grasping is not something Heidegger arrived at by studying apes in the Black Forest, but rather has a purely stipulative character.”

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• “So to make the domain of our discussion precise, we'll have to give it a stipulative (and hence somewhat artificial) definition.”

  Epistemological Problems of Memory

• “One problem with Rand & her ilk is that she relies so heavily upon such tightly stipulative definitions of words that don't really reflect how language is used in real conversation (and philosophy is a conversation, not a system!).”

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• “Turning to set theory and then the rest of science, Quine goes on to argue that, although stipulative definition, what he calls”

  The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction

• “Reference-fixing stipulative definitions can be given not only for names but also for terms in other categories, e.g., common nouns.”

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• “Philosophers have found it tempting to explain the puzzling cases of, e.g., aprioricity by an appeal to stipulative definitions.”

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• “When philosophers offer definitions of, e.g., ˜know™ and ˜free™, they are not being stipulative: a lack of fit with existing usage is an objection to them.”

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• “Yet, stipulative definitions yield judgments with epistemological characteristics that are puzzling elsewhere.”

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• “An explication aims to respect some central uses of a term but is stipulative on others.”

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