Distinctness

Distinctness means that the events are not identical, neither overlaps the other, and neither implies the other.

My Shasta Daisy 2009

While Kant was writing the Only Possible Ground, he prepared a submission to the contest, the Inquiry Concerning the Distinctness of the Principles of Natural Theology and Morals (1764).

Kant's Philosophical Development Schönfeld, Martin 2007

By the Distinctness Thesis the disposition is one of these other properties, ergo the disposition does nothing.

Dispositions Fara, Michael 2006

Distinctness of Imagination may be cultivated by carefully observing things we wish to remember, and then calling up their forms before the mind's eye, and endeavoring to describe them just as they are, in words, by writing, or by drawing; and then reexamining to see where we have erred, and correcting our mistakes.

The Elements of Character Mary G. Chandler

Distinctness in painting the common growth of field and hedgerow may be said to have had its origin with Crabbe.

Crabbe Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904 1903

(Numbers 18: 21,24,26; Nehemiah 10: 37) Distinctness and diffusion were both to be secured by the assignment to the whole tribe of forty-eight cities, with an outlying "suburb,"

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

Distinctness in painting the common growth of field and hedgerow may be said to have had its origin with Crabbe.

English Men of Letters: Crabbe Alfred Ainger 1870

It had yet to give examples of the Distinctness and Separateness of the two communities (such as that Hindus worshipped the cow but Muslims ate it), of Hindu betrayals and conspiracies (they wanted Hindi, not Urdu, to be the national language).

NYT > Home Page By ALI SETHI 2010

Distinctness is, by default, thought of as bad because, she says, "there are more ways to be nonaverage and ugly than there are ways to be nonaverage and beautiful."

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Distinctness is, by default, thought of as bad because, she says, "there are more ways to be nonaverage and ugly than there are ways to be nonaverage and beautiful."

ACM TechNews 2009