How shall one proceed to define an object or term?

Answer 1

Tough question. One can either define the object pragmatically. Or one can define it as a collection of simpler ideas. For example an "apple" is red,a fruit and grows on trees. One can also define the object by the attributes and properties it possesses. However there is a problem with this. If we strip the object or the concept off of its "defining properties", what would be left? Could it still be defined?

Ultimately, people define an object or a concept based on their experience and their impressions on the object. But then again, defining objects is a very human thought process just as classifying objects into various classes is.

Answer 2

An object or term is defined because the majority of people who see it and or feel it because of the majority of humans here agree on what it is, what it does, what color it is, what is it used for. If there were not an agreement of a large groups of people that perpetuates it's name & defination.

For instance....Let consider a car. If you ask 500 people in a large city what it is , they would say that it is a car. If one of the person says it is a tree, then what it is would be defined by the majority. If indeed the car was defined by the word Tree, it then is a tree.

We define things because of a human agreement of what makes whats something what it is called..

Answer 3

To whose understanding does it belong and how. The defining person could ask of an other whose perspective contains the object as subject to their belief. A thing may also be described in its universal perceptability or as in plain sensible existence without notion or concepts of a belief other than sensible existence, as a particular of a universal or kind, or as a peculiar specimen of a kind, or its language category such as the word is a verb, then it describes an action or abstract verb that has no sensible object but merely indicates there is an action excluded its objects desciption, such as the word 'process', the thing is described separately from its process, then its process is described.

Answer 4

I dig deep and think long and hard before I deem to define an abstract object and a term.

I draw from past experiences. I flirt with possibilities. I feel it in my heart when the definition is truth.

Answer 5

The best way to define an object is in contrast to one self.

Answer 6

Start with a proper sentence.
Ex: An apple is a fruit that grows on trees.
Apples are red, green, or yellow.

Answer 7

In the projection of the depth of ones intellect.