I am not saying this to piss you off, Ian, nor do I think the analytic/synthetic distinction necessarily speaks to correctness of a definition. Because I worked as research statistician where I was responsible for the correctness of definitions used in official surveys, I probably lean toward Quine's view anyhow. Paraconsistency needs not deny the correctness of definitions, only note their incompleteness (it is difficult to see how different definitions could be complementary, unless each of them was true in some sense). I feel a duty to defend rational thought against pomo skepticism.
I think it is disingenuous of a university professor to deny the ability to obtain correct definitions. At that rate, you might as well give up marking papers with standards of truth and falsity, and award A's for "entertaining stories". Of course the university professor is not at all so "liberal" with his bank balance, he wants his nice salary to be there, exactly counted to the last dollar and cent - although he doesn't realize that this assumes the correctness of definitions. J.
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