Difference
- Distinction (social), a social force that places different values on different individuals. (social, class, and style)
- Distinction (law), a principle under international humanitarian law governing the legal use of force in an armed conflict.
- Distinction (philosophy), the analysis of difference
- Distinctive feature, a concept in linguistics
- Distinción, the practice in Spanish of separating particular consonantal sounds; see Phonological history of Spanish coronal fricatives
- The Hua–Yi distinction, the difference between China (Hua) and barbarian outsiders (Yi), applied culturally and ethnically
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Famous quotes containing the word difference:
“The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“But as some silly young men returning from France affect a broken English, to be thought perfect in the French language; so his Lordship, I think, to seem a perfect understander of the unintelligible language of the Schoolmen, pretends an ignorance of his mother-tongue. He talks here of command and counsel as if he were no Englishman, nor knew any difference between their significations.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)
“The difference between a photograph and even the most realistic painting—say, one of Courbet’s landscapes—is that in the latter there has been selection, emphasis and some discreet distortion. The painter’s deep instinctive feeling for mass and force has rearranged everything.”
—Gerald Branan (1894–1987)