The basic premise of all mystery stories is that the distinction between good and bad coincides with the distinction between legal and illegal.

It is true that this distinction between style and idea often approaches the arbitrary since in the end we must admit that style and content frequently influence or interpenetrate one another and sometimes appear as expressions of the same insight.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

For some time the Communists honored the distinction between the Soviet zone of Germany and the Soviet sector of Berlin by promulgating separately the laws for the two areas.

The distinction between domiciled ( de jure ) and present ( de facto ) population was not clearly defined.

By contrast, even experienced linguists commonly know no more of the range of possibilities in tone systems than the over-simple distinction between register and contour languages.

However, there are relatively few such political constituencies, and, as has been pointed out, there is seldom a clear-cut distinction between the educational interests of one social class and those of another.

By all means the most important distinction is that between those total-cost apportionments which superimpose a distribution of admittedly unallocable cost residues on estimates of incremental or marginal costs, and those other apportionments which recognize no difference between true cost allocation and mere total-cost distribution.

But in any event, full credit should be given to the Cost Section for its express and overt recognition of a vital distinction too often ignored in utility-cost analyses: namely, that between a cost allocation designed to reflect the actual behavior of costs in response to changes in rates of output of different classes of utility service ; ;

We turn now to a type of fully distributed cost analysis which, unlike the `` railroad type '', draws no distinction between cost allocation and cost apportionment: the single-step type.

With the exception of the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox Catholic Churches, most churches make no moral distinction between rhythm and mechanical or chemical contraceptives, allowing the couple free choice.

In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.

and when this is done it will be found that the principles governing Christian resistance cut across the distinction between violent and non-violent means, and apply to both alike, justifying either on occasion and always limiting either action.

The justification in Christian conscience of the use of any mode of resistance also lays down its limitation -- in the distinction between the persons against whom pressure is primarily directed, those upon whom it may be permitted also to fall, and those who may never be directly repressed for the sake even of achieving some great good.

There is no justification for systematizing the random statements of Irenaeus about the image of God beyond this, nor for reading into his imprecise usage the later theological distinction between the image of God ( humanity ) and the similitude of God ( immortality ).

It is even said that the distinction between self and other is part of the root cause of our suffering.

In discussion of the arts, a distinction is sometimes made between the Apollonian and Dionysian impulses where the former is concerned with imposing intellectual order and the latter with chaotic creativity.

A distinction is sometimes made between the smaller adobes, which are about the size of ordinary baked bricks, and the larger adobines, some of which may be one to two yards ( 1 – 2 m ) long.

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

He had opened the door to technological awards, but had not left instructions on how to deal with the distinction between science and technology.

According to Richard Dawkins, a distinction between agnosticism and atheism is unwieldy and depends on how close to zero we are willing to rate the probability of existence for any given god-like entity.

The analogy is said of being in many different ways, but the key to it is the real distinction between existence and essence.

Aristotle had arrived at the real distinction between matter and form, metaphysical components whose interpenetration produces the paradox.

The real distinction between essence and existence, and that between form and matter, which served for so long as the basis of metaphysics, Hobbes identifies as " the Error of Separated Essences.

During the years under Gropius ( 1919 – 1927 ), he and his partner Adolf Meyer observed no real distinction between the output of his architectural office and the school.

The idea that a definition should state the essence of a thing led to the distinction between nominal and real essence, originating with Aristotle.

This leads to a corresponding distinction between nominal and real definition.

The essential distinction between the frequentists and the non-frequentists is, I think, that the former, in an effort to avoid anything savouring of matters of opinion, seek to define probability in terms of the objective properties of a population, real or hypothetical, whereas the latter do not.

Gardening for beauty is likely nearly as old as farming for food, however for most of history for the majority of people there was no real distinction since the need for food and other useful product trumped other concerns.

From Palamas's time until the 20th century, Roman Catholic theologians generally rejected the contention that, in the case of God, the distinction between essence and energies is real rather than, albeit with a foundation in reality, notional ( in the mind ).

Fortescue, also writing in the Catholic Encyclopedia, claimed that " the real distinction between God's essence and operation remains one more principle, though it is rarely insisted on now, in which the Orthodox differ from Catholics ".

In 1986, during a House floor debate over whether the United States should host the 1994 FIFA World Cup, Kemp proclaimed: " I think it is important for all those young out there — who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands — a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

Plato developed this distinction between true reality and illusion, in arguing that what is real are eternal and unchanging Forms or Ideas ( a precursor to universals ), of which things experienced in sensation are at best merely copies, and real only in so far as they copy (' partake of ') such Forms.

Scotist realism argues that in a thing there is no real distinction between the essence and the existence, instead there is only a Formal distinction.

In other words, we are urged to believe that Plato's theory of ideas is an abstraction, divorced from the so-called external world, of modern European philosophy, despite the fact Plato taught that ideas are ultimately real, and different from non-ideal things -- indeed, he argued for a distinction between the ideal and non-ideal realm.

T. J. Moore notes that, “ all distinction between the play, production, and ‘ real life ’ has been obliterated play Curculio ”.

English law has retained the common law distinction between real property and personal property, whereas the civil law distinguishes between " movable " and " immovable " property.

In the Philippines, a distinction is made between squatters who squat because of poverty and squatters who squat because they want to profit ( receive payment in exchange for leaving the real estate property ).

All of these contributed to the cult of Tamar which blurred the distinction between the idealized queen and the real personality.

The distinction between the terms " near real time " and " real time " is somewhat nebulous and must be defined for the situation at hand.

The terms “ surveillance ” and “ reconnaissance ” have sometimes been used interchangeably, but, in the military context, a distinction can be drawn between surveillance which monitors a changing situation in real time and reconnaisance which captures a static picture for analysis.

The projective extended real number system adds a single object, ∞ ( infinity ) and makes no distinction between " positive " or " negative " infinity.

Note the distinction with virtual memory systems ; in this case, the entirety of a process's addressable space must be in core memory, must be contiguous, and its size cannot be larger than the real memory capacity.