Abstract
It is often assumed that the fundamental question about definition concerns how different kinds of definition — ostensive definition, stipulative definition, dictionary definition, etc. — should be structured. But, unless we first determine how definitions should be expected to function, we cannot hope to arrive at a satisfactory account of how they should be structured. We need to know how a mechanism is intended to behave before we can work usefully on its design. This paper will therefore be concerned with one important aspect of the prior issue. Specifically, when a particular set of lexical definitions, in a particular syntactic framework, is supposed to compose the meaning of a given sentence, should those definitions be supposed to operate independently of one another or not?
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