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"ref": "1944, Charles Duncan Michener, Comparative external morphology, phylogeny, and a classification of the bees (Hymenoptera), page 173",
"text": "Except for the coxal socket, the most constant landmarks of the subcoxal region are the midventral discrimen, resulting from the meeting of opposite subcoxae whose contiguous margins have been infolded posteriorly to form the sternal apophyses, and the pleural suture extending from the dorsal articulation of the coxa to the pleural wing process.",
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"ref": "1998, Michael Andrew Prentice, The Comparative Morphology and Phylogeny of Apoid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), page 420",
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"ref": "2005, David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel, Evolution of the Insects, page 121",
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"ref": "1865, James Hutchison Stirling, The Secret of Hegel",
"text": "We admit Nothing to exist; Nothing is an intelligible distinction; we talk of thinking Nothing and of perceiving Nothing: in other words, Nothing is the abstraction from every discrimen or particularity. But an abstraction from every discrimen, does not involve the destruction of every or any discrimen, all discrimina still exist; in Nothing we have simply withdrawn into indefiniteness.",
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"ref": "1998, Jan Patočka, James Dodd, Body, Community, Language, World, page 133",
"text": "That is how human affectivity places us ever before us in this discrimen. The world then addresses us — affectively, in feelings, and at the same time in senses, impressions — in connection with this differentiation. Yet in the case of the animal and the child we also have to do with a world given in perception though there is no such discrimen present.",
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"ref": "1998, Jean-Luc Marion, Reduction and Givenness: Investigations of Husserl, Heidegger, and Phenomenology",
"text": "This stopping point is imposed by an authority: the traditional idea of philosophy (which Heidegger will later name \"metaphysics\"). Related to the discrimens of the phenomenological — to consider not the phenomena, but the \"mode of their exposition [Art ihrer Aufiveisung] \" — one must therefore conclude — as violent as the paradox may seem — that Husserl's phenomenology remains unphenomenological: \"In the basic task of determining its ownmost field, therefore, phenomenology is unphenomenological [unphänomenologisch]! — that is to say, phenomenological only in intention [vermeintlich phänomenologisch]!",
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"ref": "1992, Jamie Masters, Poetry and Civil War in Lucan's Bellum Civile, page 64",
"text": "But civil war creates as many boundaries as it destroys: its keynote is division, and it is itself a discrimen.",
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"ref": "2003, George Hugo Tucker, Homo Viator",
"text": "Indeed, as we have further suggested, this follows on also, in the eyes of the pilgrim- visitors themselves, from their own earlier moment of discrimen, at the point when the \"old man'\"s pilgrim-interlocutor had similarly exclaimed \"O Hercules\" on learning the Sphinx-like nature of the explanation being proffered to them.",
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"ref": "1995, James B. Tubbs Jr, Christian Theology and Medical Ethics: Four Contemporary Approaches",
"text": "Some years ago James Gustafson advanced the thesis that any comprehensive and systematic account of theological ethics must have a central \"discrimen\" - an organizing perspective, principle, metaphor or analogy around which it is structured. That discrimen must relate in a coherent fashion four \"base points\": an understanding of God and God's purposes in relation to humans and the rest of creation; an interpretation of the significance of \"the world\" and human life in it; an interpretation of human moral agency and actionsl and an interpretation of how we ought to make moral choices and judgements.",
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"ref": "2000, Cleophus James LaRue, The Heart of Black Preaching, page 18",
"text": "The discrimen, or pattern, that each theologian eventually chooses is his or her own distinctive construal of the discrimen that guides his or her critical theological judgements.",
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"ref": "2003, William Thomas Dickens, Hans Urs Von Balthasar's Theological Aesthetics",
"text": "And if we were to link this discrimen to Balthasar's synoptic judgment about what Christianity is all about, then it would be associated with humanity's participation in God as that is realized in God's incarnation in the person Jesus Christ. I do not wish to imply that these two discrimens are the only two with which Balthasar operated.",
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"ref": "2012, Michael Bywater, Big Babies: Or: Why Can't We Just Grow Up?",
"text": "But if discrimen is a cardinal virtue of adulthood, the tenets of infantilism work against it. Discrimen requires right judgement; but the idea of something, even judgment, being 'right', is in profound conflict with individualism (which says I can only claim my judgement as being right for me).",
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"english": "“and he loved everybody; for just as a white line\nmakes no distinction or sign―”",
"ref": "4th C. CE, Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina, book 4, in Bibliotheca Teubneriana, W. M. Lindsay (editor), Leipzig 1904, volume II, page 35, lines 29–30",
"text": "Discrīmen rūrsum sēparātiō, ā discernendō, […] Lūcīlius lib. XXIX:\net amābat omnēs; nam ut discrīmen nōn facit,\nneque sīgnat līnea alba\nDiscrīmen, again, means “distinction”, from distinguishing. […] Lucilius in book XXIX:",
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"english": "For “city” and “Rome” are not the same, since “city” is a word, “Rome” a name, which distinction some observe when teaching these principles, and some not.",
"ref": "45 BCE – 43 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina 10.20(19) in Bibliotheca Teubneriana, Georg Goetz and Friederic Schell (editors), Leipzig 1910, page 178, lines 7–9",
"text": "Nōn enim idem oppidum et Rōma, cum oppidum sit vocābulum, Rōma nōmen, quōrum discrīmen in hīs reddendīs ratiōnibus aliī discernunt, aliī nōn."
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"english": "This unclean world conglobates the double differences of good\nand evil, but the heavens serve the Lord alone.",
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"ref": "4th–5th C. CE, Servius Honoratus, Commentary on the Aeneid 11.144",
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"english": "But whence should this come to me, between whom and the enemy\na wall and a closed gate make a very small separation?",
"ref": "12 CE – 13 CE, Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 1.38.61–62",
"roman": "discrīmen mūrus clausaque porta facit?",
"text": "Unde sed hoc nōbīs, minimum quōs inter et hostem"
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"english": "The northern limits of Asia Minor have a narrow flank, a tongue,\nwhich the Caspian Sea and the waters of the Black Sea create\nin the middle: this place is said to be the separation\nof Europe and Asia, distinguising the country from the fields.",
"ref": "5th C. CE, Priscian (translator), Periegesis 29–33, original author: Dionysius Periegetes, in Poetae Latini Minores (volume V), Emil Baehrens (editor), Bibliotheca Teubneriana, Leipzig 1879, page 276",
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"english": "For there is no counsel in the masses, no reason, no judgement, no diligence, and the wise have always called tolerable what the people have done, not always to be praised.",
"ref": "54 BCE, Cicero, Pro Plancio 4.9",
"text": "Nōn est enim cōnsilium in volgō, nōn ratiō, non discrīmen, non dīligentia, semperque sapientēs ea quae populus fēcisset ferenda, nōn semper laudanda dīxerunt."
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"english": "The charge of recklessness, by which he thrived greatly, could be eased, because there never came to judgement whether he had acted recklessly.",
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"english": "He, doubting his own safety and everyone else’s, exits the tent unarmed: he sees that the enemy is close and the entire situation is in greatest crisis, and takes up arms from his nearest and guards the gate.",
"ref": "c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 6.38.2",
"text": "Hic diffīsus suae atque omnium salūtī inermis ex tabernāculō prōdit: videt imminēre hostēs atque in summō esse rem discrīmine: capit arma ā proximīs atque in portā cōnsistit."
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"english": "Go now and rejoice in the looks of your boy, whom\ngreater dangers await.",
"ref": "c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE, Juvenal, Satires 10.310–311",
"roman": "maiōra expectant discrīmina.",
"text": "Ī nunc et iuvenis speciē laetāre tuī, quem"
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"english": "That day was one of darkness and hazard, tribulation and hardship, and great panic was upon the earth.",
"roman": "Fuitque diēs illa tenebrārum et discrīminis, tribulātiōnis et angustiae, et ingēns formīdō super terram.",
"text": "4th C. CE, Saint Jerome, Vulgate, Esther 11:8",
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