Among other examples, Hui Shi's "The sky is as low as earth, mountains are level with marshes" deems different things similar; some of the arguments for Gongsun Long's "A white horse is not a horse" treat things of the same kind horses and white horses as different, playing largely on the ambiguity between "same" in the sense of being of the same kind and "same" in the sense of identity.
I've been meditating on this, quietly and to myself, after watching Andrew Solomon's brilliant TED talk on how parents accept and love children the rest of the world deems different, particularly when raising those children can be difficult and fearful and emotionally, accidentally injurious.
It can be easy to stereotype all Christian writers as conservative, Bible-thumping believers who sneer at anyone deemed different or sinful.
Can we afford to ignore the return of derogatory language directed at black, Muslim, gay, disabled or elderly people, anyone deemed different?
Conjoint analysis, which involves asking a sample of customers from the target market how important they deem different features, has long been used to determine which sets of product features to offer.
He alerts us to the consequences for families, and I would add that the alarm rings beyond marriage, to a broader social collapse that includes distrust of neighbors, weakened social networks and community institutions, evictions, foreclosures, diminished opportunity, hostility toward those we deem different and skepticism toward enduring human connection.
Broad, bowling full and fast, deemed different.
Thesis 3, the only one also attributed to Hui Shi in the Xunzi, can be taken to illustrate the idea that things deemed different on one scale can be deemed the same on another.
This is where an outside perspective, such as a consultant or firm, can help in providing a reality check as to whether your differentiators are deemed different by the industry or category in which you're operating.
It perpetrated murder on a massive scale, fueled by a hatred of those who were deemed different and therefore inferior.
Because racism is foundational to the American experience, all things associated with blackness has been deemed different, deficient and outside the confines of white normativity.
