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Dubiety vs Ubiety - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between dubiety and ubiety

is that dubiety is (uncountable) doubtfulness while ubiety is the state of existing in a specific point in space.

dubiety

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) Doubtfulness.
  • * 1906 , , The Fortune Hunter , ch. 18,
    • Graham fell in with the scheme without a murmur of dubiety or dissent.
  • (countable) A particular instance of doubt or uncertainty.
  • * 1843 , , book 2, ch. 2,
    • And yet these grim old walls are not a dilettantism and dubiety ; they are an earnest fact. It was a most real and serious purpose they were built for!
  • * 1851 , , ch. 4,
    • Sterling's dubieties as to continuing at Bordeaux were quickly decided.

    ubiety

    English

    Noun

  • The state of existing in a specific point in space.
  • * 1737 , Benjamin Martin, Bibliotheca Technologica: or, a philological library of literary arts and sciences :
    • Ubiety'' is a Term used with re?pect to ''?piritual Beings'', as ''Locality'' is with regared to ''corporeal'' ones, and is the very ?ame Thing, ''viz.'' that Part of Space which circum?cribes the Exi?tence of Things at any given Moment of Time, and is commonly call'd their ''Place .
  • * 1753 , (Isaac Watts), The Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D.D. , volume 5:
    • The place of a ?pirit has been often called ubiety', which may mo?t properly refer to ?o much of the material world, of which it has a more evident con?ciou?ne?s, and on which it can act : In God the infinite Spirit, his ' ubiety is where?oever there are objects for his con?iou?ne?s and activity : And you may extend this to all po??ible, as well as real and actual worlds, if you plea?e; for he knows and can do whatever can be known or can be done, and therefore he is ?aid to be every where.
  • * 1956 , Sidney Hook (editor), American Philosophers At Work: The Philosophic Scene in the United States :
    • Physical existence, thus, is essentially spatiotemporal ubiety'; and that which has or lacks '''ubiety , that is, is or is not present at some place in space at some time, is always some ''what'' or ''kind —which may be a kind of substance, or of property, or of relation, or of activity, or of change, or of state, and so on.
  • * 2001 , Denis Edwards, Earth revealing—earth healing: ecology and Christian theology :
    • Swain refers to this "history of Australian Aboriginal being" as a "hermeneutics of ubiety ," that is, a hermeneutics of whereness or of being in a definite place.