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Comment This interconnectedness of dictionary definitions is unavoidable, and indeeddesirable. In the kind of dictionary that a semanticist would propose, as partof the semantic description of a language, there would be the sameinterconnectedness between the definitions of various predicates, because thesemantic dictionary-writer’s main interest is in representing as completely aspossible the knowledge a native speaker has about all of the sense relationsbetween predicates. (But notice that the ordinary dictionary’s definitions arenot usually phrased in terms of the specific, precisely defined sense relations,e.g. hyponymy, antonymy, etc., which the semanticist is interested in.)Clearly, our sample from the Concise Oxford Dictionary shows a high degreeof circularity. This arises, probably, from the commonly accepted idea thatthe goal of a dictionary is to define everything. One cannot define absolutelyeverything without a degree of circularity in one’s definitions. The linguistic
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