Birdness vs Bidness - What's the difference?
birdness | bidness |
The quality of being a bird.
* 2000 , Timothy R. Colburn, Philosophy and Computer Science (page 91)
* 2012 , Richard Biernacki, Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry
As nouns the difference between birdness and bidness
is that birdness is the quality of being a bird while bidness is .birdness
English
Noun
(-)- When we reason about an arbitrary bird, we may conclude that it flies, but we do not alter our concept of birdness to include flight in order to make that conclusion, as the above account implies.
- A penguin or a clucking hen logically might satisfy the ascertainable criteria of birdness but remain somehow inapt for excavating focal meanings.