{"id":5994,"date":"2016-11-29T10:36:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T10:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/29\/discernable-or-discernible\/"},"modified":"2016-11-29T10:36:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T10:36:04","slug":"discernable-or-discernible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/29\/discernable-or-discernible\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Discernable’ or ‘Discernible’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latter<\/a>.  My man Hanson this morning<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Examine a coastal Democratic establishmentarian, and there is little discernable difference in his lifestyle, income, or material tastes from those conservatives (usually poorer) whom he accuses of all sorts of politically incorrect behaviors. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I should think a conservative would want to resist all pointless innovations.  The correct spelling points back to the Latin. Leibniz spoke of the identitas indiscernibilium<\/em> not the identitas indiscernabilium<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I want the link to the Latin maintained out of a sort of salutary piety  for our tradition.  <\/span><\/p>\n

This is why I write 'tranquillity' rather than 'tranquility.' <\/span><\/p>\n

Pedantic punctilios?  No doubt, which is why I will not draw my weapon if you disagree.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now go read Hanson's excellent column which is more important than my picayune points supra<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The latter.  My man Hanson this morning: Examine a coastal Democratic establishmentarian, and there is little discernable difference in his lifestyle, income, or material tastes from those conservatives (usually poorer) whom he accuses of all sorts of politically incorrect behaviors. I should think a conservative would want to resist all pointless innovations.  The correct spelling … Continue reading “‘Discernable’ or ‘Discernible’?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}