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- adjective Alternative spelling of
confusable .
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Examples
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At various moments I am led to emphasize distinctions between philosophy and various of its competitors, various interests and commitments and tastes with which, at various moments in history, philosophy was confusible—e.g., between philosophy and science, and art, and theology, and logic.
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At various moments I am led to emphasize distinctions between philosophy and various of its competitors, various interests and commitments and tastes with which, at various moments in history, philosophy was confusible—e.g., between philosophy and science, and art, and theology, and logic.
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Increased experience with similar events, however, makes specific episodic knowledge increasingly confusible, and ultimately episodes cannot be distinguished … Linton 1982, 79
The Muse in the Machine David Gelernter 1994
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A confusible is, according to Room, ` a word that not only resembles another in spelling and pronunciation, but one that additionally has a similar or associated meaning '(p. 2).
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a confusible can be any part of speech, whereas Mr. Room's distinguishables are all nouns.
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