stipulativeadj.
/ˈstɪpjuːlətɪv/ 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.
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nominal definition1697
genetic definitiona1856
ostensive definition1921
ostension1939
stipulative definition1950
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interdefinable1948
open-textured1948
stipulative1950
1950 R. Robinson Definition ii. 19 By ‘stipulative definition’ I mean establishing or announcing or choosing one's own meaning for a word.
1956 J. 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.
1965 E. J. Lemmon Beginning Logic 33 A definition such as Df ↔ may be called a stipulative definition.
1976 A. R. Lacey Dict. Philos. 48 Stipulative definitions are prescriptive in that they prescribe how a word is to be used.
1981 P. 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’.
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