contradistinction

How To Use contradistinction In A Sentence

• a priori, in contradistinction to empirical knowledge, which has its sources a posteriori, that is, in experience. The Critique of Pure Reason
• Angiospermae by Paul Hermann in 1690, as the name of that one of his primary divisions of the plant kingdom, which included flowering plants possessing seeds enclosed in capsules, in contradistinction to his Gymnospermae, or flowering plants with achenial or schizo-carpic fruits -- the whole fruit or each of its pieces being here regarded as Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
• Every day it advances and delineates the independent attitude of the international working class, in contradistinction to other social classes, to every major political development.
• Searle's picture leaves open the possibility of free will, defined here in contradistinction to determinism.
• Importantly, for Robert, in contradistinction to Kant, civil society cannot supplement this abstraction with the relative concreteness and historicity of traditions contractually entered into and upheld.
• Now, if to this real in the substance we ascribe a particular existence (for example, to motion as an accident of matter), this existence is called inherence, in contradistinction to the existence of substance, which we call subsistence. The Critique of Pure Reason
• I use the term barbarism in contradistinction to civilization, and very respectfully refer to authorities of repute in justification of this use of the word, both to designate the quality of the _thing_, and the precise locality of its fittest application; for although The Right of American Slavery
• In the novel, set forty years later, Armenian whiteness is defined in contradistinction to the racial alterity of Native Americans, another group that has suffered genocide.
• One volume of water will dissolve seven hundred times its bulk of this gas, and is then known as aqua ammonia, in contradistinction to anhydrous ammonia, the latter designating term meaning without water, while the term aqua is the Latin word for water. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
• There is another irony here, which involves a kind of contradistinction between present and posthumous fame. The Times Literary Supplement