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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Notes/Factorization Issues
  ...l means in the case of the man and the portrait, you give in either case a definition appropriate to that case alone. (''Categories'', p. 13).</p> ...ual speech is rife with the use of the word ''set'', and in a way that the nominal thinker, true-blue to the end, would probably be inclined or duty-bound to
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Notes/Factorization And Reification
  ...l means in the case of the man and the portrait, you give in either case a definition appropriate to that case alone. (''Categories'', p. 13).</p> ...ual speech is rife with the use of the word ''set'', and in a way that the nominal thinker, true-blue to the end, would probably be inclined or duty-bound to
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• Correspondence theory of truth
  ...greement of knowledge with the object.&nbsp; According to this mere verbal definition, then, my knowledge, in order to be true, must agree with the object.&nbsp; ...whose term is being defined.&nbsp; From Kant's account of the history, the definition of truth as correspondence was already in dispute from classical times, the
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/ELSEWHERE
  ...that definitions of truth based on mere correspondence are no more than ''nominal'' definitions, which he relegates to a lower status than ''real'' definitio ...on according to each theory's taste, and it did sneak in, with an informal definition in passing, the dread word "predicate", in a way that is natural enough in
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• Coordinated Universal Time
  The complete definition of UTC so far, in terms of TAI, is published in the file tai-utc.dat.<ref>f ...e end of the twentieth century, with the LOD at 2 [[1 E-3 s|ms]] above the nominal value, UTC ran faster than UT by 2 ms per day, getting a second ahead every
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• Directory:Logic Museum/Siger of Brabant/Quaestiones in Metaphysicam 20-21
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• Pragmatic theory of truth
  ...that definitions of truth based on mere correspondence are no more than ''nominal'' definitions, which he follows long tradition in relegating to a lower sta ...a representation with its object is, as [[Kant]] says, merely the nominal definition of it. Truth belongs exclusively to propositions. A proposition has a sub
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• Relation theory
  ...e common in the literature. Although it is usually clear in context which definition is being used at a given time, it tends to become less clear as contexts co ==Definition==
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• User:Jon Awbrey/THEORY
  ...as, to a ''[[formal theory]]'', constructed from explicit [[axiom]]s and [[definition]]s and developed by means of definite ''[[rules of inference]]''. The scop ...nguage" (ODP, 382). A ''[[truth definition]]'' is in turn defined as "a [[definition]] of the [[predicate (grammar)|predicate]] '&hellip;&nbsp;is true' for a la
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/THEORY
  ...as, to a ''[[formal theory]]'', constructed from explicit [[axiom]]s and [[definition]]s and developed by means of definite ''[[rules of inference]]''. The scop ...nguage" (ODP, 382). A ''[[truth definition]]'' is in turn defined as "a [[definition]] of the [[predicate (grammar)|predicate]] '&hellip;&nbsp;is true' for a la
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/TRUTH
  ...lative, objective, or absolute? Does truth, as a concept, have a rigorous definition, or is it unavoidably imprecise? ...lative, objective, or absolute? Does truth, as a concept, have a rigorous definition, or is it unavoidably imprecise?
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• User:Jon Awbrey/TRUTH
  ...lative, objective, or absolute? Does truth, as a concept, have a rigorous definition, or is it unavoidably imprecise? ...lative, objective, or absolute? Does truth, as a concept, have a rigorous definition, or is it unavoidably imprecise?
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• User:Jon Awbrey/PEIRCE
  ...o its definition in mathematics, where it means ''[[orthogonal]]'', or its definition in statistics, where it means ''[[uncorrelated]]''. In these senses, indep ...erb "is" is attached to it (and if it wants such attachment, I term it a ''nominal'' relative), becomes a sentence with some number of proper names left blank
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• Charles Sanders Peirce
  ...]] as so many [[wavelength]]s of [[light]] of a certain [[frequency]], the definition employed until 1983 (Taylor, 5). ...er destiny; while to serve the precise purpose of expressing the original definition, he begs to announce the birth of the word "pragmaticism", which is ugly en
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• Directory:Brazil
  | bgcolor="#ffffff" | Roman Catholic (nominal) 73.6%, Protestant 15.4%, Spiritualist 1.3%, Bantu/voodoo 0.3%, other 1.8%, | bgcolor="#ffffff" | ''definition:'' age 15 and over can read and write <br />''total population:'' 88.6%
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Papers/Inquiry Driven Systems : Part 3
  ...rienced characteristics, and thus, in a sense, to make a guess at the very definition of inquiry. This requirement seems both obvious and outrageous at the same ...s train. The name, the concepts that it suggests, and the tacit but vague definition of the subject that this complex of associations is already beginning to co
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Papers/Cactus Language
  When the syntactic definition of the language is well enough understood, then the language can begin to a ...ible strings that can be formed on a finite alphabet of signs. A syntactic definition of the ''cactus language'', one that proceeds along purely formal lines, is
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• User:Jon Awbrey/PROSPECT
  systems. Later on I will indicate one very broad definition of signs are implied by the definition of a knowledge field. What abstract possibility best
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Papers/Information = Comprehension × Extension
  ...e other kinds &mdash; in being purely ''explicatory''. Buffier mentions a definition of logic as the art of confessing in the conclusion what we have avowed in ...when we wish to run over the content of a term &mdash; a process called ''definition'' &mdash; since we cannot take the elements of our enumeration singly but m
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Differential Logic : Various Sketches
  Introduce a suitably generic definition of the extended universe of discourse: ...as its argument. In our immediate example, we have the following data and definition:
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