Imitation is replication of particulars, emulation is adoption of an exemplified universal or principle. - David L. Norton

Because truths of different kinds exhibit the characteristics of incommensurability (their difference is such that they cannot be measured by a single standard or reduced to members of one series) and incompossibility (their difference is such that they cannot co-exist within the same system), such openness introduces both multiplicity and contradiction, and the creature in question stands “divided against himself.”

To speak a truth that belongs to another is untruth, for speaking belongs to living, hence to speak another’s truth is to live a life that is not one’s own.

An undifferentiated absolute is normatively impotent because it can offer no principle for the apportionment of responsibility.