A distinction is a way to define a difference

In a database, a distinction is some difference in value in a variable or row

In the HO database, "comments" are distinguished from "replies" because replies have an ID value in the "replyto" column -- that's how we "tell them apart"

Can this principle be generalized to include most or all instances of distinction?

I have wanted to call a distinction a "cut" -- a slice between two things

which implies a boundary point -- where values are higher on one side of that point, and lower on the other

Every thought-form of any type is a holistic (and "additively compiled") composition defined in ("implicitly cascaded") distinctions

Challenge that: What about a simple arithmetic or algebraic expression?

The response might be -- every element of the expression -- the terms, the "symbols", the "signs" (plus, minus, equals, times, etc) are defining a routine or algorithm or procedure, or some composite object to which we giving definition

"Let x equal -- the distance to Texas in miles...."

Fri, Jul 9, 2021