"definitioneering" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1968 (1972?), \"Definitioneering: An Article-review of Sidney Hook's Academic Freedom,\" The Philosophy Forum, supplement 11, nos. 1-2 (Summer 1972): S77-S95",
          "text": "Are we entitled to so define, or is Hook bogged down in a form of \"persuasive definitioneering\"?"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Paul Kurtz, The Humanist Alternative: Some Definitions of Humanism, Prometheus Books, page 177",
          "text": "...danger is that we may become bogged down in 'definitioneering'; that is, we may become advocates of special definitions that are arbitrarily stipulated.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2001, Catherine Brölmann, \"T. Makkonen, Identity, Difference and Otherness. The Concepts of People, Indigenous People and Minority in International Law,\" International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, ISSN 1385-4879, 2001, vol. 8; issue 1, pg. 93",
          "text": "Makkonen argues that the rationale of the rights concerned should always be taken as a point of departure, rather than an attempt at a priori 'definitioneering'."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 December 29, John Wenzel, “We make the music we want to make”, in Denver Post",
          "text": "\"...when you try to define it it becomes a surreal puddle of definitioneering,\" said drummer Brandon Weaver.",
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        "The act of creating, usually by making up, definitions."
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        "(rare, humorous) The act of creating, usually by making up, definitions."
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          "ref": "1968 (1972?), \"Definitioneering: An Article-review of Sidney Hook's Academic Freedom,\" The Philosophy Forum, supplement 11, nos. 1-2 (Summer 1972): S77-S95",
          "text": "Are we entitled to so define, or is Hook bogged down in a form of \"persuasive definitioneering\"?"
        },
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          "ref": "1973, Paul Kurtz, The Humanist Alternative: Some Definitions of Humanism, Prometheus Books, page 177",
          "text": "...danger is that we may become bogged down in 'definitioneering'; that is, we may become advocates of special definitions that are arbitrarily stipulated.",
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          "ref": "2001, Catherine Brölmann, \"T. Makkonen, Identity, Difference and Otherness. The Concepts of People, Indigenous People and Minority in International Law,\" International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, ISSN 1385-4879, 2001, vol. 8; issue 1, pg. 93",
          "text": "Makkonen argues that the rationale of the rights concerned should always be taken as a point of departure, rather than an attempt at a priori 'definitioneering'."
        },
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          "ref": "2006 December 29, John Wenzel, “We make the music we want to make”, in Denver Post",
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