Distinction   

Distinction

Commens
Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce
Distinction
1885 | Notes on the Categories [R] | W 5:238; CP 1.353

…even when one element cannot even be supposed without another, they may ofttimes be distinguished from one another. Thus we can neither imagine nor suppose a taller without a shorter, yet we can distinguish the taller from the shorter. I call this mode of separation Distinction.