DEFINITIONS ARE RECIPES by Bill Joslin The only definitions (identity) which res

DEFINITIONS ARE RECIPES

by Bill Joslin

The only definitions (identity) which rest in the commons are operational descriptions (recipes).

Operational descriptions stand on their own as a set of arguments – thus definitions simply assign a name to a set of operational arguments.

We then use names, for sake of brevity, to build new, higher order arguments.

The relation of lower order and higher order definitions are two-fold – either a lower order argument has a causal relation to a higher order one (a primary or fundamental ) or the higher order argument provides superordinate to the lower order argument.

By categorizing according to arguments versus object-properties we may open up new meta-relations which are not available with an object-property mentality.