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	Seslisozluk.com dictionary translation for definition sözlük çevirisi definition
		Lexical definition specifies the meaning of an expression by stating it in terms of other expressions whose meaning is assumed to be known (e.g., a ewe is a female sheep).
		Ostensive definition specifies the meaning of an expression by pointing to examples of things to which the expression applies (e.g., green is the color of grass, limes, lily pads, and emeralds).
		Stipulative definition assigns a new meaning to an expression (or a meaning to a new expression); the expression defined (definiendum) may either be a new expression that is being introduced into the language for the first time, or an expression that is already current.
	www.seslisozluk.com /search/definition (549 words)

	Ostensive definition - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This type of definition is often used where the term is difficult to define verbally, either because the words will not be understood (as with children and new speakers of a language) or because of the nature of the term (such as colors or sensations).
		Ostensive definition tends to be imprecise, and not as useful when one does not already know the general nature of the term being defined; it assumes the questioner has sufficient knowledge to recognize the type of information being given.
		The limitations of ostensive definition are exploited in a famous argument from the Philosophical Investigations (which deal primarily with the philosophy of language), the "Private Language Argument," in which he asks if it is possible to have a private language that no one else can understand.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Ostensive_definition (335 words)

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		A coordinate definition is a definition of a theoretical term by non-theoretical terms: e.g., 'the forty millionth part of the circumference of the earth' for 'meter'.
		A definition of this type is one where the property or properties that make a specie a member of the genus are invoked along with the property that makes that specie unique from all other species in that genus.
		A recursive definitions is one which appears in three clauses: (1) the expression defined is applied to certain particular items (the base clause); (2) a rule is given for reaching further items to which the expression applies (the recursive clause); and (3) it is stated that the expression applies to nothing else.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~marmstro/dialectic/argdefinition.htm (926 words)

	Ostensive definition - TheBestLinks.com - Definition, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Meaning, Philosophy of language, ...
		This type of definition is often used where the term is difficult to define verbally, either because the words will not be understood (as with children and new speakers of a language) or because of the nature of the term (such as colors or sensations).
		Ostensive definition tends to be imprecise, and not as useful when one does not already know the general nature of the term being defined; it assumes the questioner has sufficient knowledge to recognize the type of information being given.
		The limitations of ostensive definition are exploited in a famous argument from the Philosophical Investigations (which deal primarily with the philosophy of language), the "Private Language Argument," in which he asks if it is possible to have a private language that no one else can understand.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Ostensive_definition.html (383 words)

	Chapter Three (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A theoretical definition of a term is a definition that attempts to formulate a theoretically adequate or scientifically useful description of the objects to which the term applies.
		A persuasive definition is a definition formulated and used persuasively to resolve a dispute by influencing attitudes or stirring emotions, often relying on the use of emotive language.
		Ostensive definitions are invariably ambiguous, however, because to point to an object is also to point to a part of it, or to any of its attributes.
	puffin.creighton.edu /yuan/Logic/Outline/LogicCh3.htm (1375 words)

	Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A definition may be a statement of the essential properties of a certain thing, or a statement of equivalence between a term and that term's meaning.
		Persuasive definition "is a type of definition in which a term is defined in such a way as to be an argument for a particular position (as opposed to a lexical definition, which aims to be neutral to all usages), and is deceptive in that it has the surface form of a dictionary definition."
		The definition of a concept, or of (a given sense of) a word or phrase, is a description of its intension--that is, the set of properties that characterizes all and only members of the extension of the word; the extension is all the things that the concept, word, or phrase applies to.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/D/Definition.htm (1157 words)

	Definition History Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The truth-functional definitions and definitions by abstraction are the most commonly used in logic and mathematics.
		Pointing to an apple would be an ostensive definition of the word, "apple." The definiendum (that which is defined in a definition) in a definition by abstraction is a class term, and it is defined by the properties a thing must have in order to be a member of that class.
		This definition is determined by the components of the statement which are connected by the operator.
	www.bookrags.com /history/mathematics/definition-wom (578 words)

	definition - definition & synonyms from dictionary.sensagent.com
		contextual definition • dictionary definition • explicit definition • high-definition television • ostensive definition • recursive definition • stipulative definition
		A definition delimits or describes the meaning of a concept or term by stating the essential properties of the entities or objects denoted by that concept or term.
		Definition being nothing but making another understand by words what the term defined stands for.
	www.sensagent.com /dictionaries/en-en/definition (324 words)

	Techniques for Defining Terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An extensional definition that identifies the extension of a term by listing members of the class of objects to which the term refers.
		A kind of intensional definition, which states that the term to be defined is correctly applied to a given case if and only if the performance of specified operations in that case yield a specified result.
		A type of intensional definition of a term that first identifies the larger class ("genus") of which the definiendum is a species or subclass, and which then identifies the attribute ("difference") that distinguishes the members of that species from members of all other species in that genus.
	metatext.com /books/59978/tables/table_3_5.htm (178 words)

	Week 2
		These would be ostensive definitions (ostensive, from the latin ostendere, meaning to show).
		The power of such definition is in directly presenting a concrete and complex instance of what you mean.
		This goes far beyond ostensive definition by distinguishing a class of things to which the individual thing belongs.
	www.oregonstate.edu /instruction/phl201/modules/meaning/ostensive.html (315 words)

	Week 2
		These would be ostensive definitions (ostensive, from the latin ostendere, meaning to show).
		The power of such definition is in directly presenting a concrete and complex instance of what you mean.
		This goes far beyond ostensive definition by distinguishing a class of things to which the individual thing belongs.
	oregonstate.edu /instruction/phl201/modules/meaning/ostensive.html (315 words)

	privatelanguage
		An ostensive definition of a predicate of a public language requires the introduction of a number of objects precisely because the person who learns the meaning of a term is different from his teacher.
		But when an inward ostensive definition is invoked, it is immediately transparent to the aspiring speaker of a private language which property of a sensation he wants a predicate to stand for.
		It rests on the observation that to apply successfully a sensation predicate introduced by means of an inward ostensive definition the speaker must recognize an occurrent sensation as being of the same type as the sensation which served to define the predicate.
	www.unc.edu /~jhauska/privatelanguage.htm (5810 words)

	The Definition of Definitions
		Stipulative or ostensive definitions cannot be wrong (by definition).
		A definition, which is able to incorporate all four elements is monovalent, unequivocal, unambiguous, precise, universal, appropriately exclusive and inclusive, aesthetic and parsimonious.
		"Definition" – A statement which captures the meaning, the use, the function and the essence of a term or a concept.
	samvak.tripod.com /define.html (1802 words)

	Book Publishing in the 21st Century
		The second way to define a concept is with an ostensive definition--that is, with a definition abstracted by pointing out with several examples just what it is you're trying to define, and demonstrating what is common to each example and can therefore be induced from the examples as an isolated concept.
		Since by definition, each logos has a specific informational identity that differentiates, binds, and delimits its nature--the qualities and traits through which it is capable of being exploited--the boundary limits here are set by its identity itself.
		One of the objections brought against copyrights and patents can be dealt with this way: that a person being sued for infringing on a previous copyright or patent has had the burden of proof in demonstrating that their story or invention is a separate and distinct creation from that which they're accused of infringing.
	www.pulpless.com /bp21samp/logorite.html (9828 words)

	Blue & Brown Books, Ludwig Wittgenstein - HarperAcademic
		One difficulty which strikes us is that for many words in our language there do not seem to be ostensive definitions; e.g.
		If the definition explains the meaning of a word, surely it can't be essential that you should have heard the word before.
		We say "he has given the word 'banjo' this or that interpretation", and are inclined to assume a definite act of interpretation besides the act of choosing.
	www.harperacademic.com /catalog/excerpt_xml.asp?isbn=0061312118 (910 words)

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		Yet, it is not in virtue of an ostensive definition that red and green exclude each other; it is the role of a different grammatical voice and objection to elicit another way to treat the collision.
		The criticism of ostensive definition includes a criticism of a causal conception of meaning, which is also the target in other dictations.
		This conception is deterministic: anyone who is given the ostensive definition thereby seems not only to have acquired this definition, “but also something else, in fact the sense that stands behind the word”.
	wab.aksis.uib.no /wab_contrib-sa.page (1141 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the context of imaginary worlds, it's helpful to keep in mind a "definition" of existent, such as existent is anything that exists in reality Just a reminder: definitions are relations, and are part of the identity of a concept.
		One final observation: An ostensive definition is a "definition by integration".
		A genus-differentia definition is a "definition by differentiation".
	www.volcano.net /~rhm/knowledge/theory/Epistemology/def.txt (159 words)

	DEFINITION
		A definition is designed to settle a thing in its compass and extent; an explanation is intended to remove some obscurity or misunderstanding, and is therefore more extended and minute; a description enters into striking particulars with a view to interest or impress by graphic effect.
		It is not therefore true, though often said, that description is only an extended definition.
		An essential definition states what are regarded as the constituent parts of the essence of that which is to be defined; and an accidental definition lays down what are regarded as circumstances belonging to it, viz., properties or accidents, such as causes, effects, etc.” Whately.
	www.sensagent.eu /sq.html?w=DEFINITION&sl=en&tl=en&c=SE (314 words)

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		naturalistic fallacy - attempting to give factual definitions of value-laden terms, or, as it is sometimes put, reasoning from what is the case to what should be the case, or what would be the ideal case.
		For example, if someone were to say, "What's a baboon?" one might point to one (or to a picture of one), and say "That's a baboon." Ludwig Wittgenstein organizes much of his thinking around the concept of an "ostensive definition".
		Then, Wittgenstein shows how such ostensive training would not be enough because in an actual case thed with no language at all would not know what aspect of the object was being pointed to.
	users.california.com /~rathbone/local5.htm (5427 words)

	PAPEREVISED
		It is claimed that for an ostensive definition to be successful in the public use, the
		ostensive definition is available for the private speaker as the unity of her/his consciousness.
		definition or description can be given and there is also no natural expression but only the sensation.
	plaza.ufl.edu /levent/papers/ludwig.html (4027 words)

	Sample Essays and Answers from the Mid-Term
		Euthyphro's first attempt at [defining] piety is a miserable failure because it fails all 3 of the criteria + is only an ostensive definition.
		Socrates shoots down Euthyphro's definition that "piety is what all the gods love" by using this argument.
		He gets this definition of justice from what his definition of justice was in the city.
	cda.mrs.umn.edu /~okeefets/intro-midterm-answers.html (2943 words)

	Definition of ostensive - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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	Wittgenstein's Lectures on Philosophy
		The phrase, "bearer of the word", standing for what one points to in giving an ostensive definition, and "meaning of the word" have entirely different grammars; the two are not synonymous.
		To explain a word such as "red" by pointing to something gives but one rule for its use, and in cases where one cannot point, rules of a different sort are given.
		I shall not try to give a general definition of "proposition", as it is impossible to do so.
	www.marxists.org /reference/subject/philosophy/works/at/wittgens.htm (16639 words)

	The KLI Theory Lab - keywords - ostensive definition
		De Queiroz, K. The definitions of species and clade names: A reply to Ghiselin.
		Keywords: defining property • individual • intention • name • organism • ostensive definition • species • taxon • taxonomy.
		Ghiselin, M.T. Ostensive definitions of the names of species and clades.
	www.kli.ac.at /theorylab/Keyword/O/OstensiveDefinition.html (77 words)

	The Metaphysics of Meaning, by Jerrold J. Katz
		Trying to identify or define the nature of meaning was one of the major projects of Anglo-American philosophy from the 30's to the 60's, and the whole effort was an utter and catastrophic failure.
		Wittgenstein served the historically useful function of discrediting the Positivist notions of ostensive definition, but his own theory, that "meaning is usage," is non-referential and, in effect, autistic.
		Popper already observed that Wittgenstein's definition was inconsistent with Tarski's definition of truth, that "p" is true if and only if p; for the only difference between "p" and p will be the difference between mention and use, where the former does not refer and the latter does.
	www.friesian.com /katz.htm (1824 words)

	Hauptli's Lecture Supplement on Wittgenstein's Blue Book
		Ostensive definitions do not seem to have this problem and, so, may seem to be able to “provide” meaning—‘not’, ‘one’, ‘number’ etc.
		12-13 Two different ways of looking at the teaching of meaning via ostensive definition: (a) drill which brings about associations and feelings of recognition—here the teaching causes the phenomena of understanding, obeying, etc.; and (b) supplying a rule which is itself involved in the processes of understanding, obeying, etc.
		“If on the other hand you wish to give a definition of wishing, i.e., to draw a sharp boundary, then you are free to draw it as you like; and this boundary will never entirely coincide with the actual usage, as this usage has no sharp boundary.
	www.fiu.edu /~hauptli/Wittgenstein'sBlueBook.html (8015 words)

	Joho the Blog: Ostensive definition of a geek
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