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Ideas for 'works', 'Reflections on Knowledge, Truth and Ideas' and 'Abstraction Reconsidered'

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 1. Definitions

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'Nominal' definitions just list distinguishing characteristics [Leibniz]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 4. Real Definition

8200	Aristotelian definitions aim to give the essential properties of the thing defined [Aristotle, by Quine]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 5. Genus and Differentia

4385	Aristotelian definition involves first stating the genus, then the differentia of the thing [Aristotle, by Urmson]