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David Hitchcock, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
A definition has three dimensions: its form, its content, and the act of the person producing the definition. There are three basic acts of defining, not mutually exclusive: reporting a meaning, stipulating a meaning, and advocating a meaning. Each has its characteristic criteria of evaluation. Definitions take many forms; in my Definition (2021), I identified 14. The signs used in their defining part should be understandable to the intended audience and ideally traceable to a basic language. The information conveyed should be just enough for the purpose. I propose to invite listeners to apply this framework in the chat to the task of defining antisemitism.