ARE DEFINITIONS IMPORTANT? Well that depends upon whether one is discussing expe

ARE DEFINITIONS IMPORTANT?

Well that depends upon whether one is discussing experience, meaning or existence, and whether one conflates them.

I write definitions all the time. It is very hard work.

The only existentially possible truth is testimonial truth: a proposition that is internally consistent, externally correspondent, and operationally(existentially) possible. all other uses of the term truth are analogies to testimonial truth requiring fewer properties for the purpose of the method in which such statements are made.

Mathematics (logic of relations) for example constructs proofs, and mathematicians claim that they they are true: internally consistent. Mathematics is an internally consistent system in which both discovery and existence are operationally demonstrated.

Physics (logic of causation) uses mathematics, and therefore statements in physics also require external correspondence. We can only test the measurements for existence, so we test measures rather than causal properties.

In human action and human cooperation, we rely on internal consistency of statements, external correspondence, as well as operational definitions – because we must insure that we are not using information supplied by imagination instead of existential information alone.