indiscernibility

noun — 2 senses

indiscernibility

noun

Etymology From in- + discernibility.

1

The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed.

  • If I drive without such a device, I am doing something wrong despite the indiscernability of the harm occasioned by the emissions from my car in particular.1999, Jeremy Waldron, The Law and Disagreement, →ISBN, page 240:
2

Inability to be perceived as distinct from something else; indistinguishability .

Often philosophical

  • Yet, from another perspective entirely, in both genres of analysis—those in which film is taken as medium of law and those in which law is taken as a medium of film—one necessarily acknowledges and approaches a zone of indiscernibility between the two.2005, Edward Mussawir, “The Cinematics of Jurisprudence: Scenes of Law's Moving Image”, in Law and Literature, volume 17, number 1, page 133:
Derived terms
indiscernibility of identicals

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