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Terms vs Birdness - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and birdness

is that terms is while birdness is the quality of being a bird.

terms

English

Noun

(head)
  • Statistics

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    birdness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being a bird.
  • * 2000 , Timothy R. Colburn, Philosophy and Computer Science (page 91)
  • 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.
  • * 2012 , Richard Biernacki, Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry
  • A penguin or a clucking hen logically might satisfy the ascertainable criteria of birdness but remain somehow inapt for excavating focal meanings.