Meaning of definitionism | Babel Free

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The school of thought that for a theory to be properly explained it is necessary that all concepts used by the theory be well-defined.

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Examples

“1992, William R. LaFleur, Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan, Princeton University Press, page 15, Quoted in 2015, Adam C. Pelser, Robert C. Roberts, 18: Religious value and moral psychology, Tobias Brosch, David Sander (editors), Handbook of Value, Oxford University Press, page 388, Instead of logic chopping and the unconnected neat boxes produced by definitionism, ritual provides activities that fuse a wide variety of things that seem otherwise unrelated.”

“Some philosophers have not given up on definitionism.”

“Perhaps definitionism does not work for all complex concepts.”

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