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distinction and between
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.

distinction and external
Moreover, the distinction between the subjective mental act, namely the content of a concept, and the ( external ) object, was developed independently by Brentano and his school, and may have surfaced as early as Brentano's 1870's lectures on logic.
There is also a distinction in ethics and action theory, largely made popular by Bernard Williams ( 1979, reprinted in 1981 ), concerning internal and external reasons for action.
Ruth Benedict made a distinction, relevant in this context, between " guilt " societies ( e. g., medieval Europe ) with an " internal reference standard ", and " shame " societies ( e. g., Japan, " bringing shame upon one's ancestors ") with an " external reference standard ", where people look to their peers for feedback on whether an action is " acceptable " or not ( also known as " group-think ").
A distinction, albeit not universally accepted, of sampling bias is that it undermines the external validity of a test ( the ability of its results to be generalized to the rest of the population ), while selection bias mainly addresses internal validity for differences or similarities found in the sample at hand.
The courts have clearly drawn a distinction between internal and external factors affecting a defendant's mental condition.
The distinction between insanity and automatism is difficult because the distinction between internal and external divide is difficult.
The term " nèijiā " and the distinction between internal and external martial arts first appears in Huang Zongxi's 1669 Epitaph for Wang Zhengnan.
An analytic philosopher, Rorty believed that combining Willard Van Orman Quine's criticism of the analytic-synthetic distinction with Wilfrid Sellars's critique of the " Myth of the Given " allowed for an abandonment of the view of the thought or language as a mirror of a reality or external world.
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.
Oppidan scholarships may also be awarded for consistently performing with distinction in school and external examinations.
In some eudicot families ( Apocynaceae, Convolvulaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Solanaceae, Myrtaceae, Asteraceae ), phloem also develops on the inner side of the vascular cambium ; in this case, a distinction between external phloem and internal phloem or intraxylary phloem is made.
Having established this distinction between the external world and the mind, Samkhya posits the existence of two metaphysical realities Prakriti ( matter ) and Purusha ( consciousness ).
In Chomskyan linguistics, a distinction is drawn between I-language ( internal language ) and E-language ( external language ).
While it may be extremely common in speech, sandhi ( especially for the external ) is typically ignored in spelling, as is the case in English, with the exception of the distinction between " a " and " an " ( sandhi is, however, reflected in the writing system of both Sanskrit and many other Indian languages, as also in Italian in the case of compound words with lexicalized raddoppiamento fonosintattico ).
There is a fundamental distinction between internal and external digestion.
Other important points in which Hutcheson follows the lead of Locke are his depreciation of the importance of the so-called laws of thought, his distinction between the primary and secondary qualities of bodies, the position that we cannot know the inmost essences of things (" intimae rerum naturae sive essentiae "), though they excite various ideas in us, and the assumption that external things are known only through the medium of ideas ( Syn.
A further distinction is made between conditions internal to the workings of a given technical system and those that are external to it ( Winner, p. 33, 1999 ).
* A distinction between the internal and external considerations of law and rules, close to ( and influenced by ) Max Weber's distinction between the sociological and the legal perspectives of law.
Even sticking to epistemology, though, the distinction is shaky: for example, most of the rationalists accepted that in practice we had to rely on the sciences for knowledge of the external world, and many of them were involved in scientific research ; the empiricists, on the other hand, generally accepted that a priori knowledge was possible in the fields of mathematics and logic.
* A distinction between the internal and external points of view of law and rules, close to ( and influenced by ) Max Weber's distinction between the sociological and the legal perspectives upon law.
A distinction, albeit not universally accepted, of sampling bias is that it undermines the external validity of a test ( the ability of its results to be generalized to the rest of the population ), while selection bias mainly addresses internal validity for differences or similarities found in the sample at hand.

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