distinguishing
adjective
distinctive; characteristic, as a definitive feature of an individual or group.
self-distinguishing
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a word derived from
distinguishing.
Example Sentences
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And, furthermore, this "something other than itself," which Nature involves, is "a self-distinguishing consciousness"; i.e. something to which we can attribute personality.
From Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson by John Charlton Hardwick
In the first place, the self-distinguishing process may be an activity by means of which the self specifies its own activity and satisfaction.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
Nature, Green keeps insisting, consists only in relations, and these imply the action of a mind that is eternal; a self-distinguishing consciousness which itself escapes from the relations by which it determines other things.
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by William James
