单词 | distinguo |
释义 | distinguon. A distinction in thought or reasoning. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > [noun] > subtle point subtletya1425 subtilityc1485 jimp?a1500 nicety1589 nicery1605 fineness1622 pointille1626 measuring cast1631 criticisma1640 exility1642 subtilty1681 quoddity1682 nuance1781 distinguo1895 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > [noun] > distinction in reasoning distinguo1895 1895 G. 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. 1920 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 364 When one hears that put in so unqualified a way, certain distinguos at once present themselves to the mind. 1945 R. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1895 |
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