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That’s not a definition :) And, by the way, a definition is not defined as whatever one thinks a definition is.
by alanh 4y ago
That’s not a definition :) And, by the way, a definition is not defined as whatever one thinks a definition is.
- zephyrthenoble 4y agoMaybe their definition of definition is your definition of bread?
- pcthrowaway 4y agoGive us this day our daily definition
- alanh 4y agoAt risk of really devolving this thread, I’m pretty sure that bodybuilders generally agree that bread is counter-productive in the pursuit of definition :)
- mkaic 4y ago"Bread makes you fat??" ~Scott Pilgrim
- tetsusaiga 4y agoGreat, now we gotta figure out what a "bodybuilder" is!
- pc86 4y agoOne whose body is sufficiently defined.
- whatshisface 4y agoIt offers a one-to-one correspondence between stimuli and classifications, what else could a definition be?
- taylorius 4y agoDefinitions ideally don't require an oracle.
- bufferoverflow 4y agoThat's not how definitions work. I can't know what your brain thinks bread is. And if you die, I can never know.
- whatshisface 4y agoDefinitions do not have to be computable, even in principle. For example, "a Turing machine that halts" is well-defined although there is no algorithm for classifying things into that bin.
- dpierce9 4y agohttps://plato.stanford.edu/entries/meaning/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/meaning/
- uoaei 4y agoIt is literally a definition: it defines the boundary between what is and isn't bread. There is a lot of context that is needed to get to a positive identification (maybe the word you meant) of bread, but that is true of many definitions present in dictionaries, etc. today.