Contrasts between Definitions and Interpretations

Abstract

But how do definitions and interpretations contrastingly differ? To proceed to talk about differences, we need to make a distinction between seeing something as similar and seeing something as different. And when we try to specify the difference, we ask in what respect two things are similar or they are different. The first sort of “seeing as” is based on comparative descriptions. The second sort of “seeing as” is based on finding contrasts. Contrasting descriptions require distinctions or properties that are applicable to one term and not to the other.