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    The claim conflates disagreement about which definitions ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Beginning philosophy with a definition cannot provide a basis for unanimity in knowledge.

    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.Definitional disputes concern meaning assignment, while logical disputes concern entailment relations—these require different resolution methods.
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    • 2.Two parties can agree on all definitions yet rationally disagree about what logically follows, showing these problems are epistemically separable.
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    • 3.Conflating these problems causes productive debates to derail into semantic disputes unrelated to substantive disagreement.
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    • 1.Definitions partially determine logical consequences; changing how we define terms necessarily changes what follows, so they cannot be entirely separate.
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    • 2.In practice, many 'logical' disagreements are actually rooted in implicit definitional differences that remain unexamined when treated as distinct problems.
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    • 3.The claim assumes definitions can be 'fixed' without remainder, but definitions are often contestable and parasitic on deeper conceptual disagreements.
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