distinguishability

It first makes possible the terms that are distinguished in their distinguishability.

Archive 2009-04-01 enowning 2009

The sense in which the existence of something answering to a definite description used for the purpose of identifying reference, and its distinguishability by an audience from anything else, is presupposed and not asserted in an utterance containing such an expression, so used, stands absolutely firm, whether or not one opts for the view that radical failure of the presupposition would deprive the statement of a truth-value.

Peter Frederick Strawson Snowdon, Paul 2009

It first makes possible the terms that are distinguished in their distinguishability.

enowning enowning 2009

For non-fuels, chemical exergy is a measure of distinguishability from the surroundings.

Exergy 2008

These conditions (viz. distinguishability and reidentifiability) can only be met by material objects (i.e. particulars with material bodies).

Process Philosophy Rescher, Nicholas 2008

The early universe was described by these states on a more fine grained level, or to use the macrostate analogy the states of the universe are sharp or have a high degree of “fidelity” or distinguishability and & E_g = 0 between all quantum states with a metric configuration variable.

Arrow of Time FAQ Sean 2007

Thus, it is argued, to talk of distinguishability requires at least two objects but we can imagine a universe in which there exists only one.

Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory French, Steven 2006

Although we do not actually find ourselves in such situations, of course, still, it is insisted, distinguishability and individuality should be kept conceptually distinct.

Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory French, Steven 2006

It is not obvious which type of distinguishability properties a theory must have in order to constitute a reduction of causation to probabilities.

Probabilistic Causation Hitchcock, Christopher 2002

(One could formulate a weaker sense of distinguishability by requiring that only some assignment of probabilities uniquely determines CS).

Probabilistic Causation Hitchcock, Christopher 2002