Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The capability of being detached; detachable character or condition: as, the detachability of the parts of a thing.
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- noun The quality of being
detachable .
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Examples
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I understand about detachability – it is one of the conditions of being specified.
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The last two features, cancelability and non-detachability are known as the
Pragmatics Korta, Kepa 2006
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I also do not see how detachability can be found in life, DNA, those functional machines that are supposedly specified and irreducibly complex.
A brief look at two comments on one ID-creo site - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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But I have to agree with Norman here, there is something interesting about the idea of detachability.
A brief look at two comments on one ID-creo site - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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That is why Dembski prescribes testing for “detachability” rather than for “when the specification is made”.
A brief look at two comments on one ID-creo site - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Again, this is “detachability” is based on your own knowledge and this is something that Dembski has rejected when it comes to using probability to evaluate various events as being designed or not.
A brief look at two comments on one ID-creo site - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Grice thus used “non-detachability” as a test of implicature.
Implicature Davis, Wayne 2005
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I have been a materialist for all my thinking life, but here, suddenly, is a clear case of man's detachability from matter.
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One cannot get away from the impression that the law of political detachability will operate again to make some new distribution of the parti-colored political holdings in the Lesser Antilles.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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The shifting fate of political detachability becomes moderated in islands of the open ocean, because of their remoteness from the colonizing or conquering movements emanating from the continents.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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