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Definition: determination of the use of linguistic signs (words, symbols, connectives) for non-linguistic or linguistic objects. New definitions are not supposed to be creative, that is, they are to be derived from the use of the signs already employed. See also definability, conservativity, systems, theories, models, reference systems, context definition, explicit defnition, implicit definition.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Hans-Georg Gadamer on Definitions - Dictionary of Arguments

Gadamer I 419
Definition/Gadamer: (...) what is a term? A word, the meaning of which is clearly delimited, provided that it means a defined term. A term is always something artificial, provided that either the word itself is artificially formed or - the more frequent case - a term already in use is cut out of the fullness and breadth of its meanings and fixed to a certain conceptual sense.
>Words
, >Word Meaning, >Definability, >Uniqueness.
In contrast to the life of meaning of the words of spoken language, of which Wilhelm von Humboldt rightly showed(1) that a certain range of fluctuation is essential to it, the term is a frozen word and the terminological use of a word is an act of violence perpetrated on language.
>Language use, >Language, >Meaning change, >Meaning.
Ancient Philosophy/Terminology/Gadamer: Even as an interpreter of scientific texts, one will (...) always have to reckon with the coexistence of the terminological and the freer use of a word(2). Modern interpreters of ancient texts tend easily to underestimate this demand, because the term is more artificial and insofar more fixed in modern scientific use than in antiquity, which does not yet know any foreign and few artificial words.
>Hermeneutics, >Hermeneutics/Gadamer.

1. W. v. Humboldt, Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaus, p. 9.
2. One should consider here, for example, the Aristotelian usage of phronesis, whose sub-minological occurrence endangers the certainty of developmental conclusions, as I once tried to show against W. Jaeger (Cf. Der aristotelische Protreptikos, Hermes 1928, p. 146ff.). (Cf. now in vol. 5 der Ges. Werke, p. 164—186.)

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Gadamer I
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010

Gadamer II
H. G. Gadamer
The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986
German Edition:
Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977


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