DIFFERENCE

Difference

Difference is a key concept of philosophy, denoting the process or set of properties by which one entity is distinguished from another within a relational field or a given conceptual system. In the Western philosophical system, difference is traditionally viewed as being opposed to identity, following the Principles of Leibniz, and in particular his Law of the Identity of indiscernibles. In structuralist and poststructuralist accounts, however, difference is understood to be constitutive of both meaning and identity. In other words, because identity is viewed in non-essentialist terms as a construct, and because constructs only produce meaning through the ...

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difference

Noun

  1. The quality of being different.
  2. A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
  3. A disagreement or argument.
    We have our little differences, but we are firm friends.
  4. Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
  5. The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
  6. Choice; preference.
  7. An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
  8. The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.

Verb

  1. To distinguish or differentiate.


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