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

As a result, although we still make use of this distinction, there is much confusion as to the meaning of the basic terms employed.

Another commonly used basic distinction among the elements is their state of matter ( phase ), solid, liquid, or gas, at a selected standard temperature and pressure ( STP ).

Besides the basic distinction in genre between fiction and documentary ( from which hybrid forms emerged founding a new genre, docufiction ), film genres can be categorized in several ways.

This is the basic aspectual distinction in the Slavic languages.

This distinction was criticised by Popper, who emphasised even basic observations as being " theory-laden ".

The basic proposition of these two categories pertains to the nature of reality, and the primary distinction between them is the way they answer two fundamental questions: " what does reality consist of and how does it originate?

The basic distinction between the Edison's first phonograph patent, and the Bell and Tainter patent of 1886 was the method of recording.

Practically all contemporary societies acknowledge this basic ontological and ethical distinction.

From this basic distinction, post-structuralist studies often emphasize history to analyze descriptive concepts.

A somewhat similar distinction exists in the Ashkenazi yeshivah curriculum between beki ' ut ( basic familiarization ) and iyyun ( in-depth study ).

The distinction between the noises with α near 1 and those with a broad range of α approximately corresponds to a much more basic distinction.

There is no strong distinction, however, between optical physics, applied optics, and optical engineering, since the devices of optical engineering and the applications of applied optics are necessary for basic research in optical physics, and that research leads to the development of new devices and applications.

Improved telescopes, spectroscopy, and photography are the basic tools used to make the distinction.

This role gave rise to the basic distinction between legal and equitable interests.

A basic distinction is between waist aprons which cover the body from the waist down and a bib apron which also covers the upper part of the body.

A distinction between single-firm and multi-firm conduct is fundamental to the structure of U. S. antitrust law, which, as noted antitrust scholar Phillip Areeda has pointed out, " contains a ' basic distinction between concerted and independent action.

With the compositional approach he took from the Third Symphony onward, Sibelius sought to overcome the distinction between symphony and tone poem to fuse their most basic principles — the symphony's traditional claims of weight, musical abstraction, gravitas and formal dialogue with seminal works of the past ; and the tone poem's structural innovation and spontaneity, identifiable poetic content and inventive sonority.

C & S is now refocused on the role playing aspect and its wargame aspect is set aside, presumably to both reduce the system of basic rules and to mark the distinction between genres.

He combined sociology with economics in his masterpiece The Theory of the Leisure Class ( 1899 ) where he argued that there was a basic distinction between the productiveness of " industry ", run by engineers manufacturing goods, vis-a-vis the parasitism of " business " that exists only to make profits for a leisure class.

In this case, distinction confronts the passers-by to re-consider the traditional concept of " home " and how this seemingly basic concept in not applicable to homeless people.

The content is not the same, however: rather than individual security, it is the security and continuing existence of an `` ideological group '' -- those in the `` free world '' -- that is basic.

Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.

Furthermore, the network in Figure 3 is only the basic net through which other networks pertaining to logistics and the like are interlaced.

We are reminded, however, that freedom of thought and discussion, the unfettered exchange of ideas, is basic under our form of government.

The basic truth in the reactionary response is to be found in its realistic assumption of the primacy of the real over the ideational.

When the reactionary response is thus bolstered by an intellectual defense, the characteristics of that defense are explicable only in terms of the basic attitudes of unanalyzed reaction.

The maturity in this point of view lies in its recognition that no basic problem is ever solved without being clearly understood.

The strongest appeal of the Copernican formulation consisted in just this: ideally, the justification for dealing with special problems in particular ways is completely set out in the basic ' rules ' of the theory.

This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.

There is a clear relationship between their educational evaluations and their basic pattern of general values.

There is impressive consistency between specific occupational preferences and the student's basic conception of what is for him a good way of life.

Now the basic question to be asked in this situation is what motivates the manipulators, that is, what are their values??

Yet this basic condition of outlawry and anarchy is not the work of Katanga.

Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.

In still others which are barely on the threshold of the transition into modernity, the decade can bring significant progress in launching the slow process of developing their human resources and their basic services to the point where an expanded range of developmental activities is possible.

The basic mapping phase of the program has been completed and the inventory phase is scheduled for completion July 1, 1961.

Since the validity of all subsequent planning depends on the accuracy of the basic inventory information, great care is being taken that the inventory is as complete as possible.

In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.

The selective and directional qualities of basic value-orientations are clearly evident in these data: the `` success-oriented '' students choose vocational preparation, the `` other-directed '' choose goals of social adjustment ( `` getting along with people '' ), the `` intellectuals '' choose a liberal arts emphasis.

Pohl and Kornbluth's ad men have long since thrown out appeals to reason and developed techniques of advertising which tie in with `` every basic trauma and neurosis in American life '', which work on the libido of consumers, which are linked to the `` great prime motivations of the human spirit ''.

However, his subject matter and basic themes have remained surprisingly consistent, and these, together with certain key poetic images, may be traced through all his work, including the new jazz experiments.

One of the problems associated with the expressway stems from the basic idea.

The demand for teaching sets continues unabated since they provide the means for the military physicians to review the pathology of selected disease processes or organ systems for review of basic sciences and correlation of clinical physiological behavior with structural changes.

The basic market for textiles is growing with the expansion of the population that began 20 years ago.

Even in the United States, with its freedom of religious belief and worship and its vast denominational differentiation, there is a general consensus regarding the basic Christian values.

In 1960, David D. Thomas published Basic Vocabulary In some Mon-Khmer Languages ( AL 2, No. 3, pp. 7 - 11 ), which compares 8 Mon-Khmer languages with the I-E language data on which Swadesh based the revised retention rate ( Af ) in place of original ( Af ), and his revised 100 word basic glottochronological list in Towards Greater Accuracy ( IJAL 21::

It is evident that Swadesh has not only had much experience with basic vocabulary in many languages but has acquired great tact and feeling for the expectable behavior of lexical items.

Additional courses can readily be added and special cooperative programs worked out with any new industry if the basic facilities, staff and program are in being.

The industry with which this model is concerned is a basic industry, producing a substantial share of gross national product.

It omits, for example, practically the whole line of great nineteenth century English social critics, nearly all the great writers whose basic position is religious, and all those who are with more or less accuracy called Existentialists.

What Parker and his contemporaries -- Gillespie, Davis, Monk, Roach ( Tristano is an anomaly ), etc. -- did was to absorb the musical ornamentation of the older jazz into the basic structure, of which it then became an integral part, and with which it then developed.

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

Dreams that display events of the future with photographic detail call for a theory explaining their basic mystery and all its components, including that weird feeling of deja vue, inevitably fantastic though that theory must seem.

The identification of the basic unit of religious organization -- the parish or congregation -- with a residential area is self-defeating in a modern metropolis, for it simply means the closing of an iron trap on the outreach of the Christian fellowship and the transmutation of mission to co-optation.

An interesting approach to the bedroom is presented, with a young, basic, functional group of chests, dressers and corner units and a canted headboard.

Shortly before his nomination he had set forth his basic view about the problem of negotiations with the Soviet leader in these words:

In the above mentioned report of the Notre Dame Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the basic outlook of the new breed of lay faculty emerges very clearly in the very statement of the problem as the members see it: `` Even with the best of intentions he ( the President of the university ) is loath to delegate such authority and responsibility to a group the membership of which, considered ( as it must be by him ) in individual terms, is inhomogeneous, mortal and of extremely varying temperament, interests and capabilities.

Yet with all their skills, the appeal of Mantle and Maris in 1961 comes down to one basic: The home run.