It is not positivism which has isolated metaphysics from reality by distinguishing between description and prescription.

Several of the replies to Mr. Toynbee, without conscious resort to the traditional terminology with regard to the permission of evil, succeed in restoring the actual context in which present moral and political decisions must be made, by distinguishing between choosing a great evil and choosing in danger of this evil.

The key distinguishing factor between direct and collateral appeals is that the former occurs in state courts, and the latter in federal courts.

Even the most advanced structural characterization techniques, such as x-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy, have difficulty in distinguishing between amorphous and crystalline structures on these length scales.

Sartre, popularly understood as misreading Heidegger ( an understanding supported by Heidegger's essay " Letter on Humanism " which responds to Sartre's famous address, " Existentialism is a Humanism "), employs modes of being in an attempt to ground his concept of freedom ontologically by distinguishing between being-in-itself and being-for-itself.

Many authors insist on distinguishing between a function's codomain and its range.

" Clay Witt, a minister in the Metropolitan Community Church, explains how theologians and commentators like John Shelby Spong, George Edwards and Michael England interpret injunctions against certain sexual acts as being originally intended as a means of distinguishing religious worship between Abrahamic and the surrounding pagan faiths, within which homosexual acts featured as part of idolatrous religious practices: " England argues that these prohibitions should be seen as being directed against sexual practices of fertility cult worship.

" It discusses the distinction between colonialism and imperialism and states that " given the difficulty of consistently distinguishing between the two terms, this entry will use colonialism as a broad concept that refers to the project of European political domination from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries that ended with the national liberation movements of the 1960s.

It has been alleged that the Cathar Church of the Languedoc had a relatively flat structure, distinguishing between perfecti ( a term they did not use, instead bonhommes ) and credentes.

It can be the only distinguishing feature between certain words, thus creating minimal pairs ( for example, bønder " peasants " with stød versus bønner " beans " or " prayers " without ).

Some dialects used yet other ways of distinguishing between various e-like sounds.

Both the Discourses and the Enchiridion begin by distinguishing between those things in our power ( prohairetic things ) and those things not in our power ( aprohairetic things ).

This genre soon also became an important political tool, although in most cases directors were able to keep a distinguishing barrier between art and politics.

To the layperson, the common use of language typically includes all three when referring to a firewall unless distinguishing between them is necessary.

Garcia-Ballester says the following of Galen ’ s use of prognosis: " In modern medicine, we are used to distinguishing between the diagnostic judgment ( the scientific knowledge of what a patient has ) and the prognostic judgment ( the conjecture about what will happen to him.

The same claim is sometimes made for Yemenite Hebrew or Temanit, which differs from other Mizrahi dialects by having a radically different vowel system, and distinguishing between different diacritically marked consonants that are pronounced identically in other dialects ( for example gimel and " ghimel ".

The complicated terminology distinguishing between ` the song, the name of the song, and what the name of the song is called ' entails the use – mention distinction.

Indeed, the importance of the concepts of good and evil can be regarded as distinguishing mark between high fantasy and sword and sorcery.

Furthermore, the classification of covering spaces makes strict reference to particular subgroups of, specifically distinguishing between isomorphic but conjugate subgroups, and therefore amalgamating the elements of an isomorphism class into a single featureless object seriously decreases the level of detail provided by the theory.

Even if the particles have equivalent physical properties, there remains a second method for distinguishing between particles, which is to track the trajectory of each particle.

In the absence of any legal recognition, the slave community developed its own methods of distinguishing between committed and casual unions.

He demanded strict dialectical training as the means of distinguishing the true from the false, and asserted that logic ( or the syllogism ) furthered the knowledge of catholic verities ; ignorance of logic was the reason why men misunderstood Scripture, since men overlooked the connection – the distinction between idea and appearance.

The philosophical investigation of love includes the tasks of distinguishing between the various kinds of personal love ; asking if and how love is / can be justified ; asking what the value of love is ; and what impact love has on the autonomy of both the lover and the beloved.

" If I have learned a formula in gibberish which in any way jogs my memory so as to enable me in each single case to act as though I had a general idea, what possible utility is there in distinguishing between such a gibberish ... and an idea?

Another feature distinguishing North American English dialects in general from British Received Pronunciation is the voicing or flapping of / t / before an unstressed vowel, causing the word better to sound like " bedder " or.

If human beings growing up under normal conditions ( not conditions of extreme deprivation ) always develop a language with property X ( for example, distinguishing nouns from verbs, or distinguishing function words from lexical words ) then property X is a property of universal grammar in this most general sense ( here not capitalized ).

In general, when we use the term VPN we will not be distinguishing between intranets and extranets.

The term " modern " ( Latin modernus from modo, " just now ") dates from the 5th century, originally distinguishing the Christian era from the Pagan era, yet the word entered general usage only in the 17th-century quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns — debating: " Is Modern culture superior to Classical ( Græco – Roman ) culture?

However, since Roman Catholics in general consider themselves to be " traditional " in the sense of being faithful to historical Catholic teaching, the term " traditionalist Catholics " is used in this article as a means of clearly distinguishing them from other Roman Catholics.

The red beret was worn as a distinguishing device by Carlists soldiers in the First Carlist War and later became an emblem of Carlists in general, often with a yellow pom pom or tassel.

The Six-Principle Baptists of New England were called " General ," distinguishing that they held the general view of Christ's atonement ( making salvation possible for all men ) rather than the particular view ( that He atoned for the elect only ).

A general description of the body as regards ethnicity, sex, age, hair color and length, eye color and other distinguishing features ( birthmarks, old scar tissue, moles, tattoos, etc.

These are the most general features of the genus and can be considered distinguishing characteristics.

This distinction can be made more general by distinguishing ' variable metamodel tools ' and ' fixed metamodel tools '.

Nevertheless, he is said to have had great aptitude for learning, distinguishing himself in school with his rapid acquisition of knowledge in classical and general literature and his ability to write fine poetry.

In a more general sense, the term hallmark can also be used to refer to any distinguishing characteristic or trait.

In August 1861, he was appointed brigadier general of volunteers and commanded the 2nd Brigade, Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin's 1st Division, I Corps during the Peninsula Campaign and the 1st Division, VI Corps at the Seven Days Battles, distinguishing himself at the Battle of Gaines ' Mill.

He insisted on the importance of distinguishing between collections intended for the use of specialists and those designed for the instruction of the general public, pointing out that it was as futile to present to the former a number of merely typical forms as to provide the latter with a long series of specimens differing only in the most minute details.

For a more general public, the distinguishing principle was not evident and either word was acceptable.

Already distinguishing itself somewhat from the generally center-left Swiss media by its general orientation, the magazine is now especially noted for its interviews with controversial public figures and for the diversity of opinion represented in its pages, with a dominant right-wing view however.

Promoted to major general after Gettysburg ( August 8, 1863 ), Warren commanded II Corps from August 1863 until March 1864, replacing the wounded Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, and distinguishing himself at the Battle of Bristoe Station.

Modern Māori politics can be seen as a subset of New Zealand politics in general, but has a number of distinguishing features.

( In general, however, a human is very capable of filtering out loud sounds ; similar techniques can be deployed in signal processing where suitable criteria for distinguishing between signals can be established, see signal processing and notably adaptive signal processing.

The most typical distinguishing features of Azerbaijan's architecture in the 19th century were the expansion of towns, application of Russian town-planning principles and the development of the general layouts of Ganja, Shemakha and Baku.

In general, the book theorizes an ongoing transition from a " modern " phenomenon of imperialism, centered around individual nation-states, to an emergent postmodern construct created among ruling powers which the authors call Empire ( the capital letter is distinguishing ), with different forms of warfare:

During the 19th century gaiters for riding typically were known as riding gaiters, distinguishing them from the other gaiters that were in general use.