| 释义 |
distinguo|dɪˈstɪŋgwəʊ|
[L., = I distinguish.]
A distinction in thought or reasoning.
1895G. Saintsbury Last Vintage (1950) 176, I do not propose to deal with some correspondence which followed or to give any opinion on Mr. Gladstone's alleged practice of intimating dissent (or at any rate a sort of distinguo) by the syllable ma, which it seems was not intended for the bleat of an English sheep, but for the Italian equivalent of ‘but’ itself. 1920Contemp. Rev. Mar. 364 When one hears that put in so unqualified a way, certain distinguos at once present themselves to the mind. 1945R. G. Collingwood Idea of Nature 11 Renaissance cosmology had avoided this conclusion by a distinguo. The world of nature as it appears to our senses was admitted to be unknowable; but behind this world of so-called ‘secondary qualities’ there lay other things..knowable because unchanging. |