stipulationally

English

Etymology

stipulation +‎ -ally

Adverb

stipulationally (comparative more stipulationally, superlative most stipulationally)

1. In a stipulational manner.
   • 1992, Thomas M. Norton-Smith, “A Note on Philip Kitcher's Analysis of Mathematical Truth”, in Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 33.1‎^[1], page 136:

     Now Kitcher interprets the truth of mathematical statements stipulationally, which provides truth conditions known to obtain: A mathematical statement is true if it is the logical consequence of conventional definitions.

   • 2004, Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen, Stig Andur Pedersen, Lise Mariane Sonne-Hansen, New Trends in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics‎^[2], Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 131, →ISBN:

     Even if we restrict ourselves to two dimensions, as we've already seen, pictorial proof-systems are too restrictive: they can't handle curves lacking stipulationally-obvious properties.