Medieval philosophers also adopted Aristotle's distinction between practical intellect, which discerns what to do, and speculative intellect, which discerns the truth about the way things are.
Everyone seems to have been in at least rough agreement with Joseph Addison's early definition of taste as "that faculty of soul, which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike" (Addison and Steele 1879, no. 409).
He invented the world's first water-powered armillary sphere to assist astronomical observation; improved the inflow water clock by adding another tank; and invented the world's first seismometer, which discerned the cardinal direction of an earthquake 500 km away.
In this realm specific European values emerged and have been implemented during the past decades, which discern Europe largely from the USA: industrial democracy, codetermination, the social market economy, social partnership, the welfare state etc. (Széll 2006).
Millett, a radical spirit herself, was the subject of a rather perplexed profile in Time, in 1970, which discerned her relevance without having the vision necessary to measure her significance.
The miRNA profile was measured by multiplex RT-PCR (Applied Biosystems) which can discern the specificity of miRNAs even for very similar sequences from the same family [5].
Incidence rates of severe dengue among Surinamese, a seroprevalence study among Surinamese inhabitants and serological tests which can discern the different DENV serotypes should be performed to uncover immigrants as a potential risk group for (severe) dengue.
When Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader, Massey wrote an editorial for Soundings entitled Exhilarating Times in which she discerned the "potential fracturing of the ideological and political hegemony of neoliberalism".
He converted everyday experiences, such as walking into a dark auditorium to attend a lecture, into iconic abstractions: "The late hastening visitor finds himself in an interior of plum-colored darkness… upon which one discerns the focusing spray-like yellowish-white light, the concentric, circular rows of seats, a portion of the screen".
Conversely, the canvassing board must reject any vote in which it cannot discern the intent of the voter".
