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This is also from our g-group: <Alex:I hope Jon Awbrey will change this text as he needs.>
"RM: What is your view of definitions?

[Jon_Awbrey]A recurring question, always worth some thought,
so I added my earlier comment to a long-running
series on my blog concerned with Definition and
Determination.

Definition and Determination : 15
https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2018/04/21/definition-and-determination-15/

Those two concepts are closely related, almost synonyms in their etymologies,
both of them having to do with setting bounds on variation.  And that brings
to mind, a cybernetic mind at least, the overarching concept of “constraint”,
which figures heavily in information theory, systems theory, and engineering
applications of both.

As it happens, I have been working for as long as I can remember on a project
that eventually came to fly under the banner of “Inquiry Driven Systems” and
in the early 90s I returned to grad school in a systems engineering program
as a way of focusing more resolutely on the systems aspects of that project.

Here's a budget of excerpts on Definition and Determination I collected around
that time, mostly from C.S. Peirce, since his pragmatic paradigm for thinking
about information, inquiry, logic, and signs forms the platform for my efforts,
plus a few bits from sources before and after him.

Collection Of Source Materials on Definition and Determination
http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/User:Jon_Awbrey/EXCERPTS
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