Fallacies of definition refer to the various ways in which definitions can fail to have merit. The term is used to suggest an analogy with an informal fallacy.
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“Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in
principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic
definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)