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noun
A philosophical position that definitions of concepts can only use other concepts that don't depend on the concept being defined.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences
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History
From predicative + -ism.
