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It is not the case that Implicit definitions are structural definitions whose constituent terms are structurally defined.
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Newman's 1928 objection showed that purely structural definitions trivialize physical theories, since any collection of objects satisfies some relational structure.
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If structural definitions are satisfiable by arbitrarily many incompatible interpretations, they fail to uniquely fix the meanings of their constituent terms.
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A definition that leaves its terms referentially indeterminate does not constitute a genuine semantic definition of those terms.
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Frege demonstrated that logical constants like 'and' and 'not' cannot be implicitly defined by their structural roles without presupposing their meanings.
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If foundational logical terms resist purely structural definition, then no axiomatic system can be fully self-grounding in Schlick's sense.
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Axiomatic definitions stipulate the meanings of all their constituent concepts in terms of the remaining ones.
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Axioms therefore define concepts by their relations to one another.
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