discernibility love

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  • noun The state or quality of being discernible.

Etymologies

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From discernible +‎ -ity

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Examples

  • Now, when one speaks of the unification (and discernibility) of two natures in Christ, this cannot be meant to say that the universal natures of godhead and manhood have been unified in Christ (else it would be also true to say that not only the Logos, but also the Father and the Spirit have become man, since the universal nature of godhead applies to them as much as it does to the Logos).

    John Philoponus Wildberg, Christian 2007

  • The mature Herder does not, like the Herder of that early work, rest his case on a general skepticism about the role or discernibility of efficient causation in history.

    Johann Gottfried von Herder Forster, Michael 2007

  • After treating the notion, possibility, and moral necessity of a divine revelation, and its discernibility through various internal and external criteria, the apologist proceeds to establish the fact of revelation.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • Again and again the room and its objects - a chair, a sofa, a roaming cat - become visible, hover at the edge of discernibility or are nearly swallowed in black.

    NYT > Home Page By MANOHLA DARGIS 2011

  • Again and again the room and its objects - a chair, a sofa, a roaming cat - become visible, hover at the edge of discernibility or are nearly swallowed in black.

    NYT > Home Page By MANOHLA DARGIS 2011

  • I've found 192 to be the threshold for my discernibility ..

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2008

  • ˜weak discernibility™ applies to objects that satisfy some irreflexive relation (a relation such that xRx does not obtain for every x).

    Structural Realism Ladyman, James 2009

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