Abstract
The word ‘definition’ has two fundamentally different meanings. Both real definitions and nominal definitions are called definitions, though these are expressions of quite different types.
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- 1.Quite a specific kind of definition is an ostensive (deictic) definition, that is to say a definition by demonstration. Thus, for example: ‘A green object is an object of this colour’ with the showing of an appropriately coloured surface. There is no other way of explaining to anybody what ‘sweet’ is without saying ‘it is something that tastes like this’—and giving him a piece of sugar to taste.Google Scholar
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