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On a rational view of definitions, a definition organizes and condenses - and thus helps one to retain - a wealth of knowledge about the characteristics of a concept's units. On the nominalist view, it is precisely this knowledge that is discarded when one defines a concept: as soon as the defining characteristic is chosen, all the other characteristics of the units are banished from the concept, which shrivels to mean merely the definition.— Ayn Rand
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