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SOME BEGINNING MATERIAL FOR PRECISING DEFINITIONS
SPACE---is the presence range of causal extention in terms of either efficient cause, material cause, or final cause .
INSTANTIATION --Is the manifestation of an instance from a set, class, or meta-set, or class---or a principle governing any such categories-- into a domain of efficient, material , or final causation .
(A lot of seeming conrudrums ...vexing problems.... in philosophy notably ontology , and epistemology can be cleared up with more precise definitions . So let not the proverbial chips fall where they may . Let us guide them to fall into the right slots !)
SPACE---is the presence range of causal extention in terms of either efficient cause, material cause, or final cause .
INSTANTIATION --Is the manifestation of an instance from a set, class, or meta-set, or class---or a principle governing any such categories-- into a domain of efficient, material , or final causation .
(A lot of seeming conrudrums ...vexing problems.... in philosophy notably ontology , and epistemology can be cleared up with more precise definitions . So let not the proverbial chips fall where they may . Let us guide them to fall into the right slots !)
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Re: SOME BEGINNING MATERIAL (for precising definitions)
Thu, May 3, 2007 - 4:29 AMThanks for posting this. I just finished teaching a section on defintions in my Logic class. I do not have very many examples of precisining defintions. I also don't have a whole lot of examples of stipulative definitions. Of the latter I have several taken from Metro here in DC; for example, escalump, planbdextrous, escalefter. -
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Re: SOME BEGINNING MATERIAL (for precising definitions)
Fri, May 4, 2007 - 2:49 PMYour welcome . Precising definitions which make latent concepts in existing lexical definitions more explicit are good. Redefining, in contrast, is bad .
Just out of curiousity , what does the word 'planbdextrous' mean ? -
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Re: SOME BEGINNING MATERIAL (for precising definitions)
Sat, May 5, 2007 - 4:16 AMPlanbdextrous: The ability to make alternate arrangements in case Metro is experiencing significant delays.
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Re: SOME BEGINNING MATERIAL (for precising definitions)
Sun, May 6, 2007 - 1:49 PMWhat is escalump, and escalefter, in relation to Metro?
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Re: SOME BEGINNING MATERIAL (for precising definitions)
Sun, May 6, 2007 - 3:49 PMEscalump is a person who abruptly stops at the top or bottom of an escalator hindering the continuous flow of traffic.
Escalefter is a person who stands on the left and not the right side of an escalator.
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Re: SOME BEGINNING MATERIAL (for precising definitions)
Sat, May 5, 2007 - 4:20 PMwould i be correct to say that these definitions are influenced by aristotelian causation?
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Re: SOME BEGINNING MATERIAL (for precising definitions)
Sat, May 5, 2007 - 10:38 PMIt is times like these we can be thankful for the world's socioethnomethodologists. -
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Re: SOME BEGINNING MATERIAL (for precising definitions)
Sun, May 6, 2007 - 1:47 PM
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I learn enough words each day that are actual words, forget those ones which are not...
What are socioethnomethodologists? -
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Re: SOME BEGINNING MATERIAL (for precising definitions)
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Re: SOME BEGINNING MATERIAL (for precising definitions)
Mon, July 16, 2007 - 1:32 AMLet us return to ruminating on the original definitions presented at the onset of this present thread ......
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