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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

recur′sive defini′tion, [Logic.]

Philosophya definition consisting of a set of rules such that by repeated application of the rules the meaning of the definiendum is uniquely determined in terms of ideas that are already familiar.

1935–40

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