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Saul Kripke (1980) has drawn attention to a special kind of stipulative definition.

Definitions Gupta, Anil 2008

This distinction between hand and organ for grasping is not something Heidegger arrived at by studying apes in the Black Forest, but rather has a purely stipulative character.

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So to make the domain of our discussion precise, we'll have to give it a stipulative (and hence somewhat artificial) definition.

Epistemological Problems of Memory Senor, Thomas D. 2009

This distinction between hand and organ for grasping is not something Heidegger arrived at by studying apes in the Black Forest, but rather has a purely stipulative character.

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Philosophers have found it tempting to explain the puzzling cases of, e.g., aprioricity by an appeal to stipulative definitions.

Definitions Gupta, Anil 2008

When philosophers offer definitions of, e.g., ˜know™ and ˜free™, they are not being stipulative: a lack of fit with existing usage is an objection to them.

Definitions Gupta, Anil 2008

One problem with Rand & her ilk is that she relies so heavily upon such tightly stipulative definitions of words that don't really reflect how language is used in real conversation (and philosophy is a conversation, not a system!).

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Yet, stipulative definitions yield judgments with epistemological characteristics that are puzzling elsewhere.

Definitions Gupta, Anil 2008

Turning to set theory and then the rest of science, Quine goes on to argue that, although stipulative definition, what he calls

The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction Rey, Georges 2008

Reference-fixing stipulative definitions can be given not only for names but also for terms in other categories, e.g., common nouns.

Definitions Gupta, Anil 2008