"It is a fact that humans are multicellular eukaryotes with an internal digestive tract. It is also a fact that these criteria match the biological definition of an animal. But because Iām talking to a philosopher, we even have to argue the definition of ādefinitionā. āA good definition explains concisely what something meansā, āa statement expressing the essential nature of somethingā, āa statement of what a thing isā. So any multicellular eukaryote with an internal digestive tract is in fact an animal by definition. Once we determine that the criteria apply, we have no choice to deny the definition connected with that, especially not when the definition is deliberately well-established by expertise as this one is, rather than being an āaccident of languageā such as the apologist asserted."
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