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Is there a reason dictionaries of philosophy are not widely used or mentioned?

I've noticed that there are no dictionaries of philosophy online and not too many have been published. I've just finished a paper on The Transcendental Deduction and found myself wanting for explicitly defined terminology. I suspect its due to a lack of consensus and the complexity of some terms. Can anyone confirm this? Is it considered poor form to search explicitly for the definitions of philosophical terms?
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Don't go to papers if you want to define terms, go to encyclopedias, e.g. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (preferably the former if it the entry isn't too difficult).  Going into a paper and looking for definitions is difficult in every discipline (e.g. you're expected to know what DAPI and actin are if you're in cell bio).