Sentence examples for distinctness criterion from inspiring English sources

The categorical distinctness criterion must be dropped also.

In his objections to Descartes, he rejects the clarity and distinctness criterion, seeks to undermine the reasoning behind the cogito, and assails the ontological argument.

According to Kant there is no all-purpose or absolutely general criterion of truth (A58 59), such as the "clarity-and-distinctness" criterion of the Cartesians.

Such vagueness falls foul of the categorical distinctness requirement (criterion 6 above).

Having extracted clarity and distinctness as the criterion of truth at the beginning of the Third Meditation, Descartes immediately calls it into question.

Clarity-and-distinctness as a criterion of truth raises its own difficulties, but the difficulties are not the obvious and devastating ones raised above.

By focusing upon the distinctness of different antitrust criteria, this framework sheds light on the looseness of the total welfare standard and the preciseness of the consumer welfare standard.

Compounds constituting the diversity set were derived from a parent library of ~140,000 compounds based on the following criteria: (1) Distinctness of the molecule, its pharmacophores and its conformational isomers, (2) Rigidity (5 or fewer rotatable bonds), (3) Planarity and (4) Pharmacologically desirable features.

Quantifying the interpretation of hierarchical trees and introducing mathematically and statistically well-defined criteria for distinctness of sub-trees would therefore be highly beneficial and is the focus of this work.

Language relativity does not imply that the distinctness of distinct objects cannot go unnoticed.

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.