| 释义 |
stipulative, a.|ˈstɪpjuːlətɪv|
[f. stipulate v. + -ive.]
That stipulates or specifies as an essential condition; spec. in stipulative definition (Logic), the act of stipulating what a word, phrase, etc. shall be used to mean; a definition so stipulated.
1950R. Robinson Definition ii. 19 By ‘stipulative definition’ I mean establishing or announcing or choosing one's own meaning for a word. 1956J. Hospers Introd. Philos. Anal. i. 51 We are stating what we are going to mean by it... We are stipulating a meaning, and we have a stipulative definition. 1965E. J. Lemmon Beginning Logic 33 A definition such as Df {lrar} may be called a stipulative definition. 1976A. R. Lacey Dict. Philos. 48 Stipulative definitions are prescriptive in that they prescribe how a word is to be used. 1981P. A. Angeles Dict. Philos. 59 When Norbert Wiener coined the word ‘cybernetics’ he gave it the stipulative definition: ‘the science of communication and control systems’. |