To What Extent Can Definitions Help our Understanding? What Plato Might Have Said in His Cups

Metaphilosophy 43 (5):698-713 (2012)
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There are grounds for taking Plato's agenda of searching for definitions to be ironic, and he points toward good arguments for being wary of trust in definitions.

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10.1111/j.1467-9973.2012.01767.x

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