Consider the following definition of a chair:
A chair is a wooden substance with four legs.
What is the best description of this definition?
Group of answer choices
none of the above
essential definition
definition by example
too broad
The correct answer is essential definition because an essential definition in philosophy is that which puts forth fundamental human perception of a particular thing and the subject and predicate of the definition are reversible. The other options are incorrect because definition by example is defining a thing through an example such as dining chair is a type of chair, and too broad can mean that the definition is too broad which is incorrect for the given situation.
Consider the following definition of a chair: A chair is a wooden substance with four...
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