Cover -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Defining Definition -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Isidore of Seville -- Blaise Pascal -- Benedict de Spinoza -- John Locke -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- George Berkeley -- Immanuel Kant -- John Stuart Mill -- Heinrich Rickert -- References -- Name Index -- TERMINOLOGY AND LEXICOGRAPHY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE (TLRP)
Summary
This collection of essays on definitions, from Plato and Aristotle to modern times, assembles interesting, sometimes less widely known and controversial texts. They examine the subject from the point of view of philosophy which is essential for a theory o