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Distinction Cloth
Distinction, distinct or distinctive may refer to: * Distinction (philosophy), the recognition of difference * Formal distinction * Distinction (law), a principle in international law governing the legal use of force in an armed conflict * Distinction (sociology), a social force that places different values on different individuals * Distinct (mathematics) * Distinctive feature, a concept in linguistics * ''Distinción'', in Spanish, separating consonantal sounds, see Phonological history of Spanish coronal fricatives * The Hua–Yi distinction, the difference between ''China'' (Hua) and barbarian outsiders (Yi), applied culturally and ethnically * ''Distinction (book)'', a book by Pierre Bourdieu * Distinction (horse), Irish gelding, third in the 2005 Melbourne Cup * Distinction (song), song and album by The Suffrajets Awards and honors * an Award or quality of an award recipient * Latin honors, indications of relative achievement among academic degree recipients * Any one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Distinction (philosophy)
Distinction, the fundamental philosophical abstraction, involves the recognition of difference. In classical philosophy, there were various ways in which things could be distinguished. The merely logical or virtual distinction, such as the difference between concavity and convexity, involves the mental apprehension of two definitions, but which cannot be realized outside the mind, as any concave line would be a convex line considered from another perspective. A real distinction involves a level of Ontology, ontological separation, as when squirrels are distinguished from llamas (for no squirrel is a llama, and no llama is a squirrel). A real distinction is thus different than a merely conceptual one, in that in a real distinction, one of the terms can be realized in reality without the other being realized. Later developments include Duns Scotus, Duns Scotus's formal distinction, which developed in part out of the recognition in previous authors that there need to be an intermedia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |