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Definition

A definition is a semantic statement of the meaning of a term (a word, phrase, or other set of symbols). Definitions can be classified into two large categories: intensional definitions (which try to give the sense of a term), and extensional definitions (which try to list the objects that a term describes).

Intensional definitions vs extensional definitions, In medicine & In logic, mathematics and computing

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Intensional definitions vs extensional definitions

Necessary and sufficient conditionsSetGenus and differentiaExtensionObjects
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In medicine

Medical dictionariesGuidelinesConsensus statementsClassificationsAntecedent
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In logic, mathematics and computing

NeologismReal numberImaginary numberPrimitive groupIrreducible variety
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Terms with multiple definitions

HomonymHomographsHomophonesPolysemySign
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Intensional definitions vs extensional definitions

Operational vs. theoretical definitions

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In logic, mathematics and computing

In medicine

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Definition

Nodes98
Edges97
Triples92
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.020408
Components1

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Definition

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related to External links · 17
Definition → Anil, Brown, Definitions, Dictionaries, Elsevier, Elsevier Encyclopedia, Garth Kemerling, Language, Linguistics, Longworth, Meaning, Meanings, Norman Swartz, Philosophy Gupta, Stanford Encyclopedia, Uses, Varieties
related to Limitations of definition · 16
Definition → An Essay Concerning Human, As, Bertrand Russell, English, Given, He, If, Locke, Many, More, Other, Philosophical Investigations, The, Thus, Understanding, Wittgenstein
related to Classes of extensional definitions · 8
Definition → Alice, An, Enumerative, For, Ludwig Wittgenstein, One, The, This
related to Nominal definitions vs real definitions · 7
Definition → Aristotle, By, In, It, Posterior Analytics, The, This
related to Basic terminology · 6
Definition → Africa, An, Asia, For, In, The
related to In logic, mathematics and computing · 6
Definition → English, For, Frequently, In, On, The
related to Classification · 4
Definition → Authors, In, Norman Swartz, Swartz
related to Recursive definitions · 4
Definition → All, At, It, Normally
is a · 3
Definition → definition explaining what a word means, semantic statement of the meaning of a term, type of intensional definition that takes a large category
related to Divisio and partitio · 3
Definition → An, Divisio, The

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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

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Definitionis asemantic statement of the meaning of a term0.90text
Definitionis atype of intensional definition that takes a large category0.90text
Definitionis adefinition explaining what a word means0.90text
English containsinstance ofFallacies of definitionLimitations of definitionGiven that a natural language0.80text
at any given timeinstance ofFallacies of definitionLimitations of definitionGiven that a natural language0.80text
a finite number of wordsinstance ofFallacies of definitionLimitations of definitionGiven that a natural language0.80text
any comprehensive list of definitions must either be circular or rely upon primitive notionsinstance ofFallacies of definitionLimitations of definitionGiven that a natural language0.80text
these it is not possibleinstance ofFor terms0.80text
indeed not necessary to state a definitioninstance ofFor terms0.80text
English containsinstance ofFallacies of definition Limitations of definitionGiven that a natural language0.80text
at any given timeinstance ofFallacies of definition Limitations of definitionGiven that a natural language0.80text
a finite number of wordsinstance ofFallacies of definition Limitations of definitionGiven that a natural language0.80text

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