"qualitative difference" refers to a noticeable and significant difference in the quality or nature of something. It means that there is a distinct and valuable change, rather than just a minor or quantitative variation.
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I say, no, it's a
huge qualitative difference between what this study shows and the statement that we think the probability that the vaccine works is 96 %.
If they have the same qualifications and experience, (common when you have a range of people who've all met the job criteria) interview questions have to
find qualitative differences.
In actuality, compared with heterosexual couples committed gay couples show no intrinsic or
qualitative differences in their capacities for self - giving love.
The very ability of women to respond in a way that only courtesans were supposed to in an earlier age means, moreover, that
qualitative differences of sex experience — the impenetrable mystery — can be sought for night after night, and not only in periodic visits to a mistress or brothel.
In other words,
qualitative differences among teachers have large impacts on the growth in student achievement, even though these differences are not related to the measured background characteristics or to the training teachers have received.
These regularities include the appearance of new peaks in the absorption spectrum of electromagnetic radiation with different polarization, as well
as qualitative differences in the dynamics of the wave packet that are manifested when hexagonal distortion or corrugation of the spectrum is taken into account.
This makes the situation a «degenerate third» because the opposition or «secondness» between eternity and becoming is reduced to
mere qualitative difference — ever - presence versus sometimes - presence.
Or perhaps the latter: given the
total qualitative difference between the active, directed mental «intentionality» exhibited in conscious cognition (that is to say, the «aboutness» of thought and perception, the «meaningfulness» of reality as apprehended under finite phenomenal, conceptual, and semiotic aspects) and the passive, undirected indeterminacy of any reality that might exist independent of mental acts.
While the Republican party and the Conservatives maintain close links there are
strong qualitative differences between their approaches, with the Tories considerably to the left of their American colleagues.
In light of the cultural shifts implicit in a philosophical shift, there may be room for anthropologists or sociologists to try to
capture qualitative differences between competency - and time - based systems.
In order to determine
possible qualitative differences in mathematical activity between the two classroom contexts (calculus class or learning theories in STEM education class), the authors focused on the evidence of student individual and collective thinking from three different groups, as documented in their corresponding generated public spaces and explored and characterized each group by its respective generated mathematical spaces of solutions.
It's like wiretapping: there's a
critical qualitative difference between single wiretaps that require a court order and disclosure, and the government secretly recording all phone calls for subsequent analysis.
Only someone who accepts individualism as the highest good would be so confident that there is an
obvious qualitative difference between the «freely chosen» decision to die made by a person facing a terminal illness and a decision made by a physically healthy but mentally tormented individual.
There is a
huge qualitative difference between learning about something, which requires only information, and learning from something, which requires that the learner enter into a rich and complex relationship with the subject at hand.
E.F. Schumacher, whose European roots give him extremely adept, objective insight into the precepts of an American free - market, argues that «most of the conspicuous developments of economics in the last quarter of a century are in the direction of quantification; at the expense of the understanding of
qualitative differences.»
In comparison mode, we're pretty good at deciding between
qualitative differences.
I'm not sure what is
the qualitative difference of cutting an unsustainable boom and creating a recession?
There is no need to be terribly specific — general,
qualitative differences will be enough for electoral success.
I can't accept the logic that because things that are wrong are worse «over there» than they are «here» that
a qualitative difference exists.
That being said I do think there is
a qualitative difference between the application of religious law / edicts between Islam and Christianity.
But he can see
no qualitative difference.
The students of evolution have to postulate a progression towards mankind since all but the most obtuse recognise
a qualitative difference between man and the beasts.
Do you think there is actually
a qualitative difference between Christianity and other alternatives when it comes to how much sense they make of life, or is it maybe mainly a matter of subjective experience, and of culture?
There is an intuition that some factor is present at the level of life that is not present at the level of matter, and that there is
a qualitative difference distinguishing mind from life, and so on.
The way of distinction, therefore, puts a positive valuation on the time - space continuum and, though it sees divine redemption as the remaking of history into something new, it can not conceive of divine - human interaction in other than historical terms which preserve
the qualitative difference between God and man.
The truer imagery is the one formulated by Whitehead, in saying that the topic of religion is individual in community, 28 which is to see individual values empowered through relationships, and the community expressive of freedom and
qualitative differences.
According to the latter, each religion is placed in a sequence according to
some qualitative differences between them arbitrarily established.
Yet if we take such a sensible route, we shall have missed the «infinite
qualitative difference» [Kierkegaard] between God and man that led the early theologians of the Christian tradition to risk such paradoxical expressions.)
The question as to whether there is
a qualitative difference in the education being offered in church - sponsored colleges as over against state - supported institutions is a matter that has to be debated in the zero - based mission planning that Bishop Adams suggests.