Definition. A conjuntion is the part of speech (or word class) that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences. The common conjunctions-- and, but, for, or, nor, yet, and so --join the elements of a coordinate structure. A sentence style that employs many coordinate conjunctions is called polysyndeton.A sentence style that omits conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses is called asyndeton.In contrast to coordinating conjunctions, which connect words, phrases, and clauses of equal rank, subordinating conjunctions connect clauses of unequal rank. See Examples and Observations below. sentence style that omits conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses is called asyndeton. In contrast to coordinating conjunctions, which connect words, phrases, and clauses of equal rank, subordinating conjunctions connect clauses of unequal rank. See Examples and Observations below.
Distinction without a difference. A distinction without a difference is a type of argument where one word or phrase is preferred to another, but results in no difference to the argument as a whole. It is particularly used when a word or phrase has connotations associated with it that one party to an argument prefers to avoid.
The a priori /a posteriori distinction, as is shown below, should not be confused with the similar dichotomy of the necessary and the contingent or the dichotomy of the analytic and the synthetic. Nonetheless, the a priori /a posteriori distinction is itself not without controversy.The major sticking-points historically have been how to define the concept of the experience on which the distinction is grounded, and whether or in what sense knowledge can indeed exist independently of all experience.he distinction between a priori and a posteriori knowledge thus broadly corresponds to the distinction between empirical and nonempirical knowledge. The a priori/a posteriori distinction is sometimes applied to things other than ways of knowing, for instance, to propositions and arguments.