If a distinction is to be made between divination and fortune-telling, divination has a formal or ritual and often social character, usually in a religious context, as seen in traditional African medicine ; while fortune-telling is a more everyday practice for personal purposes.

If a distinction is drawn, then it is that Yang – Mills theories occur on a flat space-time, whereas Kaluza – Klein treats the more general case of curved spacetime.

:: If the repeaters in a network that is based upon the physical extended star topology are replaced with hubs or switches, then a hybrid network topology is created that is referred to as a physical hierarchical star topology, although some texts make no distinction between the two topologies.

If a distinction is made, the line separating a ruby from a pink sapphire is not clear and highly debated.

If the consonants and * used in Cree are compared to their English counterparts, it is noticeable that there is little distinction of voicing.

If there was any distinction between toun ( fortified municipality ) and burgh ( unfortified municipality ) as claimed by some, it did not last in practice as burghs and touns developed.

Bertrand Russell discussed the paradox briefly in § 38 of The Principles of Mathematics ( 1903 ), distinguishing between implication ( associated with the form " if p, then q "), which he held to be a relation between unasserted propositions, and inference ( associated with the form " p, therefore q "), which he held to be a relation between asserted propositions ; having made this distinction, Russell could deny that the Tortoise's attempt to treat inferring Z from A and B is equivalent to, or dependent on, agreeing to the hypothetical " If A and B are true, then Z is true.

If it was “ debatable ” whether Glass-Steagall was justified in the 1930s, it was easier to argue that Glass-Steagall served no legitimate purpose when the distinction between commercial and investment banking activities had been blurred by “ market developments ” since the 1960s.

If ships are built of a class whose production had been discontinued, a similar distinction might be made.

… If it had no other distinction it would still have that of impressive, immeasurable achievement … a supreme embodiment of vigorous effort .”

Using logical terminology and applying it to the argument from free will, there is a marked distinction between the statement " It is impossible ( for God to know a future action to be true and for that action to not occur )" and the statement " If God knows that a future action is true, then it is impossible for that action to not occur.

If she had indeed borne a male heir to Akhenaten, this distinction might well merit unique honors.

To elaborate this message, Holmes first turned to the distinction between law and morals: “ The prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious, are what I mean by the law .” If law is prophecy, Holmes continues, we must reject the view of “ text writers ” who tell you that law “ is something different from what is decided by the courts of Massachusetts or England, that it is a system of reason that is a deduction from principles of ethics or admitted axioms or what not, which may or may not coincide with the decisions .” Holmes next introduces his most important and influential argument, the “ bad-man ” theory of law: “ f we take the view of our friend the bad man we shall find that he does not care two straws ” about either the morality or the logic of the law.

William Child in The Musical Times thought these " first rate ", and singled out " If Ever I Saw " as having particular distinction.

If Durkheim made this distinction, then it is unlikely that Parsons did not.

If the Viscount Mountgarret proves his presumed claim to the 1328 earldom of Ormonde, the Earls of Shrewsbury would lose this distinction, but they derive higher precedence from their English earldom in any event.

If necessary, measuring cAMP ( cyclic AMP ) in the urine after an intravenous dose of PTH can help in the distinction between hypoparathyroidism and other causes.

If this distinction is made, cultivated forms should be treated as J. mimosifolia, since they are believed to derive from Argentine stock.

If these genetic differences indicate a specific distinction, P. b. euptilurus may yet be a valid species.

If it were necessary to make the distinction, then the English constructions " he must have gone " or " he is said to have gone " would partly translate the inferential.

If one could make a distinction between good and bad conflict, substantive would be good and affective conflict would be bad.

If Cicero could convince the judges that Clodius had laid a trap for Milo, he could postulate that Milo murdered out of self-defense ( Roman law at the time had no distinction between murder and manslaughter ).

If there is no external world, the distinction between substance and accidents vanishes, and these become the sole essence of material objects, so that there is no room for any change whilst they remain as before.

If the Third Republic returned once again to the principles of equality espoused by the Revolution ( at least among the political Radical party ), in practice the upper echelons of French society maintained their notion of social distinction well into the 20th century ( as attested to, e. g., by the presence of nobility and noble class distinctions in the works of Marcel Proust ).

If the Union conceded this to them, the same right must be conceded to each remaining state whenever it saw fit to secede: This would destroy the federal balance between it and the states, and in the end sacrifice to the sovereignty of the states all the liberty the citizens had gained by their Union.

If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.

If we grasp this opportunity to build an age of productive partnership between the less fortunate nations and those that have already achieved a high state of economic advancement, we will make brighter the outlook for a world order based upon security and freedom.

If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.

If the Af bond is linear then there are three reasonable positions for the hydrogen atoms: ( 1 ) The hydrogen atoms are centered and hence all lie on a sheet midway between the oxygen sheets ; ;

If one assumes that the average flux did not change between measurements, a mass-distribution curve is obtained which relates the flux of particles larger than a given radius to the inverse 7/2 power of the radius.

If the rake angle **yc of the knife is high enough and the friction angle **yt between the front of the knife and the back of the chip is low enough to give a positive value for Af, the resultant vector R will lie above the plane of the substrate.

`` If there was collusion between an outside murderer and a member of the household it would be an elementary precaution to check on the door later.

`` If asked to choose between a terrible probability and a more terrible possibility, most men will choose the latter ''.

`` If Philip Toynbee is claiming that the choice lies between capitulation and the risk of nuclear war, I think he is right.

If there is a substantial difference between characters ' ranks, the conflict is generally over before the weaker character can react.

* Let Q be a set enclosed between two step regions S and T. A step region is formed from a finite union of adjacent rectangles resting on a common base, i. e. S ⊆ Q ⊆ T. If there is a unique number c such that a ( S ) ≤ c ≤ a ( T ) for all such step regions S and T, then a ( Q )

If antimatter-dominated regions of space existed, the gamma rays produced in annihilation reactions along the boundary between matter and antimatter regions would be detectable.

If a tile is placed between two hotel chains of the same size, the individual player who places the tile decides which hotel chain remains on the board and which is acquired.

If placing a tile causes three or four chains to merge, then the merger steps are handled between the largest and second-largest chain, then with the third-largest chain, and finally with the smallest chain.

If the pencil with the angle u2 is that of the maximum aberration of all the pencils transmitted, then in a plane perpendicular to the axis at O ' 1 there is a circular disk of confusion of radius O ' 1R, and in a parallel plane at O ' 2 another one of radius O ' 2R2 ; between these two is situated the disk of least confusion.

If the daughter is an only child or her sisters are deceased and have no living issue, she ( or her heir ) is vested with the title ; otherwise, since a peerage cannot be shared nor divided, the dignity goes into abeyance between the sisters or their heirs, and is held by no one.

If a planet is found to rotate slower than expected, then astronomers suspect that the planet is accompanied by a satellite, because the total angular momentum is shared between the planet and its satellite in order to be conserved.

If not, the system may either be rejected or accepted on conditions previously agreed between the sponsor and the manufacturer.

If this special relationship does not exist then it not usually spoken of as " backward " compatibility but is instead just " compatible "— a consistent interface allowing interoperability between components and products that were each developed separately.

In the words of Geoffrey Crowther, then editor of The Economist, " If the economic relationships between nations are not, by one means or another, brought fairly close to balance, then there is no set of financial arrangements that can rescue the world from the impoverishing results of chaos.

If a stranger entered the circle, he had to do so to the woman's right so as not to come between her and her husband.

If rain arrives, it is usually between August and October.

If evolutionary processes are blind to the difference between function F being performed by conscious organism O and non-conscious organism O *, it is unclear what adaptive advantage consciousness could provide.