NS comments on Empty Labels - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 February 2008 11:50PM

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Comment author: NS 15 February 2008 04:06:13AM 3 points [-]

You seem to be under the impression that Aristotle was a nominalist about definitions. To my knowledge, that is false. Most of the Posterior Analytics is devoted to showing how definitions can be discovered. He does not believe they are simply arbitrary tags. From where in his corpus are you deriving this interpretation?