Chapter 22

NOMENCLATURE, DEFINITION, PREDICABLES

Sec.1. Precise thinking needs precise language 348 Sec.2. Nomenclature and Terminology 349 Sec.3. Definition 352 Sec.4. Rules for testing a Definition 352 Sec.5. Every Definition is relative to a Classification 353 Sec.6. Difficulties of Definition 356 Proposals to substitute the Type (p. 356) Sec.7. The Limits of Definition 357 Sec.8. The five Predicables 358 Porphyry's Tree (p. 361) Sec.9. Realism and Nominalism 364 Sec.10. The Predicaments 366