DEFINITION

- a statement that gives the meaning of a term or a statement which explains

what a term means. There are two elements of definition: (1) the definiendum
or definitum and (2) definiens. The former is the term to be defined; it is the
word whose meaning has to be explained. The latter if the phrase that defines
(explains) the definiendum. The definiens should define the definiendum and
it is because by the former that we can understand the latter, the former should
have more words or terms.

Example:
Logic is science that deals with correct reasoning.
Ethics is a practical and normative science, based on reason, that studies human acts
and determines their goodness and badness.
Nominal Definition
Connotative Definition
Denotative Definition
Descriptive Definition
Gives the meaning of the term by enumerating the characteristics, whether essential or
accidental, of the referent that term.
Physical Division
A Denotative is enumerative if it enumerates the referents of the term to be defined.