contradistinguishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

contradistinguish (三人称単数 現在形 contradistinguishes, 現在分詞 contradistinguishing, 過去形および過去分詞形 contradistinguished)

1. (transitive) To distinguish things by contrasting their different qualities.
   • 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding:

     Reason, therefore, here, as contradistinguished to faith, I take to be the discovery of the certainty or probability of such propositions or truths which the mind arrives at by deduction made from such ideas, which it has got by the use of its natural faculties ; viz. by sensation or reflection.

   • 1916, John Dewey, Democracy and Education:

     A genuinely educative experience, then, one in which instruction is conveyed and ability increased, is contradistinguished from a routine activity on one hand, and a capricious activity on the other.

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• contradistinction
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