distinguon.
/dɪˈstɪŋɡwəʊ/ 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.
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