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A '''distinction without a difference''' is a type of logical fallacy where an author or speaker attempts to describe a distinction between two things even though there is, in fact, no actual difference.<ref>{{cite book | title=Philosophical Writing: An Introduction | author=Martinich, A. P. | publisher=Blackwell Publishing | date=1996| url=http://books.google.com/books?id=0pJ2Do2Rg8MC | page = 99}}</ref> It is particularly used when a word or phrase has [[connotation]]s associated with it that one party to an argument prefers to avoid. |
A '''distinction without a difference''' is a type of logical fallacy where an author or speaker attempts to describe a distinction between two things even though there is, in fact, no actual difference.<ref>{{cite book | title=Philosophical Writing: An Introduction | author=Martinich, A. P. | publisher=Blackwell Publishing | date=1996| url=http://books.google.com/books?id=0pJ2Do2Rg8MC | page = 99}}</ref> It is particularly used when a word or phrase has [[connotation]]s associated with it that one party to an argument prefers to avoid. |
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A '''distinction without a difference''' is a type of [[philosophical argument|argument]] where one word or [[phrase]] is preferred to another, but results in no difference to the argument as a whole. It is particularly used when a word or phrase has [[connotation]]s associated with it that one party to an argument prefers to avoid. |
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A distinction without a difference is a type of logical fallacy where an author or speaker attempts to describe a distinction between two things even though there is, in fact, no actual difference.[1] It is particularly used when a word or phrase has connotations associated with it that one party to an argument prefers to avoid.
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- ^ Martinich, A. P. (1996). Philosophical Writing: An Introduction. Blackwell Publishing. p. 99.
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