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Rorty I 302
Definition: Quine’s attack on the first dogma had made it doubtful.
Operational definition: along with Sellar’s doctrine that a "sensory fact" is a function of socialization it became twice as questionable with Quine’s holistic attacks.
>Two dogmas, >Definability.
Quine I 327
Definition: is an instructions for transformation. It reinstates the singular term. Definitions are flexible, without truth value gaps.
II 109
Carnap quasi-analysis: encompasses a full reduction through definition. QuineVs: an assignment of sense qualities to spacetime points must be kept revisable. Therefore it is not attributable to definitions.
VII (b) 24
Definition/Quine: can serve opposite purposes: e.g abbreviation or more economic vocabulary (then longer chains). Part and whole are bound by translation rules. The definition key is neither for synonymy nor analyticity.
Ad X 70
Definition/object language/meta language/Quine/(s): the term which is defined, cannot stand in the object language, even if the rest of the definition is (not always) in the object language.
X 84
Definition/VsQuine: from appropriate method of proof is of no interest, because the property of being provable by a particular method is uninteresting. It is only interesting in connection with the completeness theorem. QuineVsVs: logical truth is not mentioned there.
X 101
Context Definition: introduces merely a facon de parler. That creates eliminability at all times without ontological commitment.
XIII 43
Definition/Quine: Lexicon entries are a distant echo of what philosophers and mathematicians call definition.
Lexicon/Dictionary/Quine: is intended to facilitate our conversations.
Def Definition/Quine: to define an expression means to explain how to do without it.
XIII 44
Defining is eliminating.
Definition/Quine:
a) an expression.
b) an object.
>Expressions, >Objects.
One way is reduced to the other, because we define people by defining "people" and numbers by defining numbers or the word "number".
Expression/Definition: Definition of expressions is the broader term, because expressions like "or" are also included.
Object Definition/Object: this is what we talk about when we think more about the nature of an object.
Elimination/Quine: the concept of definition as elimination is especially helpful when definitions are not compatible as in the case of natural numbers. This also applies to the many possible definitions of the ordered pair. All that is required is that x and y can be uniquely obtained from . >Elemination.
Definition/Quine: has several purposes: sometimes to elucidate the use of the established language,
XIII 45
sometimes an idiolect, sometimes philosophical considerations.
Definition: if it requires translation from one structure to another, this can enable us to enjoy the advantages of each by switching back and forth. (See singular terms).

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