How to assess definitions

Faced with a plethora of notions with overlapping or conflicting definitions, there is a straightforward two-steps routine to separate the wheat from the chaff:
1.The definition must support a clear and unambiguous distinction between the targeted instances.
2. The resulting subsets must directly support a well defined purpose. 

 As a launch pad, here is a batch of trivial assertions to build upon:


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