Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 124
Definition/Goodman: a definition is not symmetrical: usually a definiens describes that to which it applies in more detail than the definiendum. It provides an analysis and introduces means for a systematic integration.
>Asymmetries.
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III 61
Definition coextensive, but not identical/Goodman: coextensive but not identical are e.g. featherless bipeds and definitions.
III 96
Definition/criterion/Goodman: the definition of hydrogen does not provide us with a test of how much of that is in this room.
III 126f
Definition/Goodman: even though a definition always unambiguously determines which objects it is in accordancce with, it rarely, in turn, is clearly justified by each of its individual cases. You can see, the table, to which I point, as a "steel table", "steel thing" then finally put it into a class with cars. In such a way that no label in this range applies to both.
Such flexibility cannot be allowed in the case of scores.
III 169f
None of our common natural languages is a notation system. E.g. a wheelbarrow belongs to many performance classes of object-English: "wooden object", "means of transport with wheel", etc. In such a language, there is no such thing as the definition. In a system of notation, however, all scores for a given performance are coextensive, all have the same performances as a fulfillment object.
III 191f
Definition/Goodman: the difference between real and nominal defining still applies, as is already illustrated by the difference between writing a score for a pre-existing work and composing a new work. In the first case, a score is uniquely determined by a performance, in the second case a score determines a class of performances clearly.