06:1806:18, 17 January 2020diffhist−21
Ordinal number
The original opening sentence purports to be a definition. A highly desirable property of a definition is that the phrase forming the definition should be grammatically substitutable for the item being defined. Accordingly, the thing named in the definition should be of the same type as the thing defined. In the opening sentence, it is clear that an ordinal number must be a number, yet it asserts, literally, that it is a generalization. If we get past this, we have the possibility that an ordina
04:1204:12, 3 March 2016diffhist+3
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Samuel Langley
Changed 'apparati' to 'apparatuses'. 'Apparatus' is not a 2nd declension Latin noun like 'dominus'. See The Free Dictionary.
06:1806:18, 17 January 2020diffhist−21
Ordinal number
The original opening sentence purports to be a definition. A highly desirable property of a definition is that the phrase forming the definition should be grammatically substitutable for the item being defined. Accordingly, the thing named in the definition should be of the same type as the thing defined. In the opening sentence, it is clear that an ordinal number must be a number, yet it asserts, literally, that it is a generalization. If we get past this, we have the possibility that an ordina
04:1204:12, 3 March 2016diffhist+3
m
Samuel Langley
Changed 'apparati' to 'apparatuses'. 'Apparatus' is not a 2nd declension Latin noun like 'dominus'. See The Free Dictionary.