Timeline for What is the meaning of "differences of degree and not of kind"
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| Oct 14 at 14:56 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | '... The difference in kind, rather than in degree, that distinguishes nuclear weapons from others (to which Mr. Bernstein alludes) ...' [Harvard Hollenberg; 1984; in NYT] // But yes; these are not well-defined. It is quite legitimate to class deflagrating and detonating explosives separately rather than ... er ... scalarly. But I'd say intrinsically even more appropriate to distinguish chemical and nuclear reactions / weapons. // It depends on how these things are classified. The chosen hypernym. | |
| Oct 13 at 20:29 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | @EdwinAshworth - as I mentioned somewhere else (question about any difference in meaning between 'detonate' and 'explode' ), gunpowder is a low explosive that deflagrates, while the others are high explosives that detonate. | |
| Oct 13 at 18:50 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | A pertinent example is that the different explosive forces of chemical explosives such as gunpowder, ammonium nitrate, nitroglycerine and Semtex exhibit differences of degree. But nuclear explosives exhibit a difference in kind. | |
| Jan 2, 2019 at 20:00 | history | answered | Michael Harvey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |