Timeline for What are the distinctions between property, quality, attribute, characteristic, feature, aspect and trait? [closed]
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| Jan 15, 2020 at 22:42 | comment | added | Sandwichmeister | I think these words differ in usage in an academic context at least. A property is probably best understood as that what belongs to a thing, which suggests a greater degree of permanence. Meanwhile, quality has something of a subjective, perceptual sense e.g. of a person or building. Characteristic tends to be something that is, well, characteristic of a thing, representative of type or kind. A feature is featured as in displayed. A trait is indicative of something and potentially inheritable. And an aspect is the way something appears from a certain position i.e. one side of something. | |
| Jan 18, 2018 at 8:14 | comment | added | brillout | This is one of the best questions I stumbled upon this site. And then it gets closed. Quite disappointing. | |
| Dec 24, 2015 at 3:36 | comment | added | Flek | There are thousands of questions on Stackexchange which following exactly the same pattern, e.g. "what is the difference between X, Y and Z". But here you argue because someone ask of W, X, Y and Z the question is too broad?!? | |
| Aug 2, 2013 at 20:46 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Aug 2, 2013 at 2:33 | comment | added | Moss | Please take this question off of hold. It is a perfectly good question. It had 5 upvotes and only 2 down. I was working on a answer to it myself. This is totally uncalled for. | |
| Aug 1, 2013 at 21:56 | history | closed |
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| Aug 1, 2013 at 20:49 | comment | added | Moss | You mean too much work to answer? As in I should have asked about less words? | |
| Aug 1, 2013 at 14:30 | answer | added | deecemobile | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 1, 2013 at 12:05 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 1, 2013 at 10:15 | answer | added | J.R. | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 1, 2013 at 9:54 | comment | added | Kris | The question is too broad for a Q&A site. | |
| Aug 1, 2013 at 9:53 | comment | added | Moss | Fine, I removed that statement, but it is still my secret aim. @Kris If people want to answer based on a domain they are familiar with that is fine. Ideally the answer would try to synthesize usage from all domains. If one must be picked then I would say philosophy. | |
| Aug 1, 2013 at 9:52 | history | edited | Moss | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 1, 2013 at 9:43 | comment | added | Kris | Dictionary definitions alone do not suffice. You need to take into account usage, context and most importantly, the domain (here, as distinct from context, the field of knowledge -- each domain uses expressions with specific meaning.) | |
| Aug 1, 2013 at 9:38 | comment | added | B. Szonye | Stackexchange is not a good fit for “a multitude of opinions [rather than] one right answer.” Otherwise, your question seems fine, so I recommend simply removing that sentence. | |
| Aug 1, 2013 at 9:26 | history | asked | Moss | CC BY-SA 3.0 |