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OCR: This ad gives the definition of cadillac as found in Webster's Third New Interna tional Dictionary of the English Language. How nice for Cadillac that they found an authoritative definition to promote their image of excellence! Definitions offer seemingly clean equation: this equals that. But definitions are also limited they f,uop take context into account. For example 'All men are created equal, the word 'men includes women but that's not the case for all contexts To be convincing, claims of definition need to account for how others define the term as well as for the range of possible cases the term applies to. eguation ttake