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    It is not the case that Beginning philosophy with a definition cannot provide a basis for unanimity in knowledge.

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    • 1.Stipulative definitions in philosophy can bracket interpretive disputes by explicitly fixing meaning for a given inquiry.
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    • 2.Frege's logicist program demonstrated that rigorous definitions of number yielded intersubjective agreement among trained reasoners.
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    • 3.Unanimity in knowledge requires only shared inferential commitments from definitions, not metaphysical certainty about essences.
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    • 1.Spinoza's Ethics proceeds from definitions and axioms to theorems accepted by readers across centuries as validly derived, showing definitional unanimity is achievable.
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    • 2.The claim conflates disagreement about which definitions to adopt with disagreement about what follows once definitions are fixed—these are distinct epistemic problems.
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    • 1.Mathematical definitions can construct their objects in intuition, but philosophical definitions cannot.
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    • 2.What we derive from a definition depends on how we interpret it and what we read into it.
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    • 3.There are many possible interpretations of the same definition, no matter how simple.
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