Philosophical Writing--An Introduction by A. P. Martinich

Author:A. P. Martinich [Martinich, A. P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781119010043
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2015-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

The drawback of characterization by example is that it may not be obvious what the principle of division is. Certainly this is the case in Borges’s Chinese classification. It is easy for the disseminator of a distinction to be misled herself. If she relies only upon examples, it is possible that the author will conflate two different distinctions.

Characterization, then, is theoretically the better method of drawing a distinction because it specifies the principle or property that differentiates the terms. Here is an example of characterizing the distinction between alienated and unalienated labor:

There are two kinds of labor: alienated and unalienated. Labor is alienated when the laborer does not have full control over his work or does not receive its full benefit. Labor is unalienated when it is not alienated.

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