This ends up either under-determining which identities hold, or, absurdly, entailing that some stuff is distinct from itself.
As "the supposition of qualities, i.e., abstract stuffs as distinct from properties, i.e., conditions, is ontologically extravagant and conceptually outlandish," he now argues, "one cannot seriously propose that there are abstract stuffs, things just like familiar material stuffs except that they are abstract" (Levinson 2006: 564).
They stipulate, for instance, that 'killing people' be used to refer only to a certain kind of shí (stuff, event, situation), distinct from that denoted by 'killing robbers'.
Thus, for Maddy the various sets built up out of this egg-stuff are all distinct from the aggregate itself.
History calls are interpretations that make history, as distinct from the raw stuff of events.
Is life something truly distinct from non-living stuff, as many dualists have suggested for millennia?
Furthermore, the stuff of a is not an improper s- or pp-part of a either, since the stuff of a is stipulated to be distinct from a.
A Christian leader should be particularly careful not to be associated with such stuff, for he wants the Christian faith to seem open, accessible, reasonable – utterly distinct from such cloak-and-dagger Harry Potter stuff.
The Girls are far more postmodern than that - the embodiment of a rapacious will-to-fame quite distinct from any of that old-fashioned talent stuff.
(As distinct from the hair).
