"define as" is absolutely correct and very commonly used in written English. It is used when you want to provide a definition of a word or concept. For example: The term "justice" can be defined as the quality of being just and fair.
An alternative to taking ∼ and ∨ as primitive is to take ∼ and · as primitive and to define as ∼, to define as ∼, and to define as before.
And I am very specific about what I define as "hooky".
What do you define as "musical trash"?
ARIEL LEVY: Depends what we define as "unfair".
"It went way beyond what we define as self-defence.
Appalachian music – driven by guitars, banjos and fiddles – wasn't as straightforward to define as I thought.
"Most people here would self-define as geeks".
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Claudia Letizia
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