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- ✅ fear: an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger
**5."To ensure the intelligibility of definitions, use simpler terms than the term you are defining."**
"The terms used in a definition should be more intelligible—for example, by being more scientifically, logically, or ontologically basic—than the term that is being defined. Someone who does not know the meaning of a term, especially a technical term, will not be helped by a definition that fails to satisfy the principle of intelligibility."
**References:**
1. Arp, Robert, Barry Smith, and Andrew D. Spear. Building ontologies with basic formal ontology. Mit Press, 2015.
2. Seppälä, Selja. "An ontological framework for modeling the contents of definitions." Terminology. International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized Communication21.1 (2015): 23-50.
3. Seppälä, Selja, et al. "Definitions in ontologies." Cahiers de lexicologie 2016.109 (2017): 173-205.
4. Seppälä, Selja, Yonatan Schreiber, and Alan Ruttenberg. "Textual and logical definitions in ontologies." TABLE&OF&CONTENTS (2014): 35.
