LessonsRefining the Jāmiʿ and the Conditions of Elegant CoordinationQuiz

«فلا تفاوت بين التماثل والتضايف والتضاد وشبهها»
In this respect there is no essential difference between similarity, correlation, opposition and similar relations.

The objection notes that each is an apprehended relation: similarity involves a shared feature, correlation mutually referential notions, and contrariety a kind of incompatibility.

The useful distinction is therefore not between a 'meaning' and a 'non-meaning', but between an intellectually judged general relation and the particular contrasting or remembered connection elicited in an audience.

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Similarity, correlation and opposition as relations

Refining the Jāmiʿ and the Conditions of Elegant Coordination

«فلا تفاوت بين التماثل والتضايف والتضاد وشبهها»
In this respect there is no essential difference between similarity, correlation, opposition and similar relations.

The objection notes that each is an apprehended relation: similarity involves a shared feature, correlation mutually referential notions, and contrariety a kind of incompatibility.

The useful distinction is therefore not between a 'meaning' and a 'non-meaning', but between an intellectually judged general relation and the particular contrasting or remembered connection elicited in an audience.