Sentence examples for real definitions from inspiring English sources

As Ockham sets it up, all connotative terms have nominal definitions, never real definitions, and absolute terms (although not all of them) have real definitions, never nominal definitions.

For Ockham, there are two kinds of definitions: real definitions and nominal definitions.

This tells us that the real definitions of absolute terms will be complex connotative expressions.

A science of nature, for Aristotle and the Scholastics, consists of real definitions and not mere nominal ones.

It follows therefore that an absolute term can have several distinct real definitions that don't always signify exactly the same things.

In contrast to Lowe's account, it is possible for Hale to offer an account of (B) through the use of conceptual analysis or through a treatment of the real definitions of essence and metaphysical modality.

Part of the idea of real definition is that necessarily, nothing can survive the loss of one of its definitive properties.

Makes you wonder what the real definition of corruption is.

The real definition of their character is how they've dealt with it.

The method involves a process of question and answer designed to elicit a "real definition".

When one of the Europeans asked Mr. Kisliak for his definition of a pilot program, he said there was no real definition, one official said.