SUO: RE: SUOP Topic :> Definition Of Example
Dear Jon,
From the OED again.
Normative:
Establishing or setting up a norm or standard; deriving from, expressing, or implying a general standard, norm, or ideal.
Informative:
Having the quality of informing.
It is really only necessary to worry about the definition of terms that
are not used in their ordinary dictionary sense.
Matthew West
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Awbrey [mailto:jawbrey@att.net]
> Sent: 16 November 2003 17:27
> To: SUO; West, Matthew R SITI-ITPSIE
> Subject: Re: SUOP Topic :> Definition Of Example
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> SUOPT :> EXG. Note 3
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> JA = Jon Awbrey
> MW = Matthew West
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> Re: Re: SUOPT :> EXG Page 1. http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg11638.html
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> Copied here:
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> JA: What is an example, in particular,
> a case falling under a definition?
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> Matthew,
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> In your second answer to the
> question "What is an example",
> you supplied the following text:
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> MW: Under a definition an example is some informative
> material (as opposed to normative material) that
> aids comprehension of the definition.
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> Permit me to raise two issues, or Issues, as the case
> may be, about your ostensible Definition of "Example".
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> Issue 1. It invokes three additional terms, "comprehension",
> "informative", and "normative", each of which invokes
> a concept which is, at least at first sight, likely to
> be far more complicated than the term in the definiendum,
> and the last two of which you are apparently invoking in
> a specialized disciplinary, regional, or technical sense
> that has very little eluctable or obvious relationship
> to the ordinary senses of the words, indeed, to their
> use in other disciplines, regions, or technical areas.
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> Issue 2. Though the previous Issue does not of necessity raise
> insuperable or insurmountable issues of its own, this
> approach to the Definition of Example does go against
> the grain, of vitiate the overall spirit of the grain,
> with respect to that Principle that recommends itself
> to all sober intellects, to wit, of StepWise Refining.
>
> Jon Awbrey
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