Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Solvency II and Tracking Other Organizations' Definitions

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I attended an interesting webinar by Golden Source ( www.thegoldensource.com ) today about Solvency II.  Solvency II is a huge pan-European ...
Monday, November 28, 2011

Evolution of Definitions – The Problem of Pluto

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In early 2006 I had the privilege of seeing NASA’s New Horizon’s mission blast off on its way to Pluto.  At that time, Pluto was a planet.  ...
Saturday, November 26, 2011

A Note on the Role of Precision in Definitions

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The term "precision" seems to have changed its meaning over the centuries, which may cause confusion to anyone dealing with the li...
Friday, November 25, 2011

Must a Definition Include Identification of Related Concepts?

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The traditional answer to this question is "yes", because classic essential definitions follow the formula Definition = Genus + Sp...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

The Fallacy of Language As The Mirror of Reality

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Analysts can sometimes create huge problems if they try to produce single definitions for terms within a single semantic community and withi...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

A Brief Review of Nordterm 8 - A Guide to Terminology

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In the sparse literature about definitions, most publications are from Academia.  However, Nordterm 8 Guide to Terminology by Heidi Suonuuti...

A First Note on Partial Definitions

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I think that partial definitions exist, and there are practical reasons for being interested in them.  I cannot find any literature about th...