Real, Immediate, Multiple: Towards a Theory of Definition
In ‘Senses of Essence’ Kit Fine tentatively proposed that one could take the notion of real definition as basic and define essence in terms of it. Building on Litland 2023 this paper begins to develop an account where the notion of full, immediate real definition is taken as basic. We then sketch how one can provide non-circular definitions of the logical operations and sketch how one can define various essentialist operations.
Authors
- Jon Erling Litland (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7162-0045)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Metaphysics
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5334/met.190
- Primary Topic
- Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00