Talk:Precising definition
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Precising definition survived vfd after a rewrite. See: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Precising definition -- Wile E. Heresiarch 03:50, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
"Precise" is not normally a verb in English. Something similar is a verb in French, and the French, when writing in English, sometimes fail to realize how strange it sounds to Anglophone ears to say "This can be precised" or the like. I wonder if that's what's happening here? Michael Hardy 16:03, 12 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- Probably, there are only 91 hits on google for precising.definition
- JeffBobFrank 01:51, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
That aside, I'm not clear how to rescue the page anyway.
Charles Matthews 08:02, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Actually, I've encountered "precising definition" used in a course on logic in this sense: Types of Definition; it does belong with the other types of definitions listed in the definition article. I've made a stubby attempt to rewrite it to match the term as I've seen it used: I am not familiar with it in some of the contexts the previous author had in mind, or at least, I don't think I am, but can't tell from the way it was written. Mindspillage 02:02, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Come to think of it, would this and all the other types of definitions would be better merged with the main definition entry? Mindspillage 03:14, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
