diremption
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A forcible separation; a tearing asunder.
Examples
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The former limit is reached in anguish, madness, or the agony of death, when the accidental flux of things in contradiction has reached its maximum or vanishing point, so that the contradiction and the flux themselves disappear by diremption.
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A pun is a grotesque example of such diremption, where ambiguities belonging only to speech are used to suggest impossible substitutions in ideas.
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The diremption into soul and body, into life and death, runs through the entire narrative, also that into men and women; but the main distinction is into Past and Present.
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Now, the problem in putting it like that is in suggesting a diremption between ‘knowledge’ and ‘belief’, and that’s not the trick.
Note
The word 'diremption' comes from Latin diremptio ("a separation").
