Sentence examples for distinctness and from inspiring English sources

At the same time, extreme haecceitism is typically paired with a commitment to the necessity of identity and distinctness and therefore rules out possibilities according to which actually distinct objects are one and the same.

"SuperBetter" aims to eliminate unpleasant feelings or weakness — anything, really, that gives human character its distinctness and depth.

Tartarus, originally denoting an abyss far below Hades and the place of punishment in the lower world, later lost its distinctness and became almost a synonym for Hades.

When Serbian rule replaced that of the Ottoman Turks in 1913, the Serbs officially denied Macedonian linguistic distinctness and treated the Macedonian language as a dialect of Serbo-Croatian.

Cartesian metaphysics is the fountainhead of rationalism in modern philosophy, for it suggests that the mathematical criteria of clarity, distinctness, and logical consistency are the ultimate test of meaningfulness and truth.

Part of the pleasure, the giddiness of the [drag] performance is in the recognition of a radical contingency in the relation between sex and gender.…In the place of the law of heterosexual coherence, we see sex and gender denaturalized by means of a performance which avows their distinctness and dramatizes the cultural mechanism of their fabricated unity.

According to three principles of human visual attention, we use the within-classes scatter matrix and the between-classes scatter matrix to measure the similarity and distinctness within and between the center region and the surrounding region, respectively.

Arnauld's account of clarity and distinctness, obscurity and confusion of ideas can be found in the First Part, Chapter 9, of the Logic.

As is also well-known, Rawls rejects this reasoning on the grounds that it does not take seriously the separateness and distinctness of persons.

These whole genome markers have also played a role in the mapping and variety identification supplementing Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability (DUS) test and product trace ability (44).

The 'average taxonomic distinctness' (Clarke and Warwick 1998) and 'variation in taxonomic distinctness' (Clarke and Warwick 2001), complementing Δ+, were employed to explore temporal changes in the taxonomic structure of NSH species pool in the whole Mediterranean basin.