The phrase "a basic distinction between" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to clarify or highlight differences between two or more concepts, ideas, or categories.
Example: "In this essay, I will outline a basic distinction between renewable and non-renewable energy sources."
Alternatives: "a fundamental difference between" or "a key differentiation between".
Most, however, make a basic distinction between "true" and "fictitious" narratives, with "true" ones corresponding to what in the West would be called myths.
A BASIC distinction between a fine artist and an artist working from a craft tradition sometimes can be seen in the approach to media, rather than in a medium itself.
Moreover, as noted above, there is a basic distinction between a "joint work," where the separate elements merge into a unified whole, and a "collective work," where they remain unintegrated and disparate.
Exactly what the deep grammar consists of is still not clear, but a basic distinction between nouns and verbs would probably be one of its minimum requirements.Plumbing the grammatical depthsIn this section Babel's children NASA spacecraft Here we go again?
His first step is to draw a basic distinction between activity and passivity: "I say that we are active when something takes place within us or out of us, of which we are the adequate cause, ie when from our nature something follows either within us or out of us, which can be clearly understood by that nature alone.
In the 20th century, pattern poetry sometimes crossed paths with concrete poetry; a basic distinction between the two types of poetry is the ability of pattern poetry to hold its meaning apart from its typography i.e., it can be read aloud and still retain its meaning.
Or should the very distinction be rejected, as on a 'Humean' view that denies any basic distinction between experience and subject of experience and may seek to construct the subject from experience not, in itself, owned?
A basic distinction is made between cerebral plasticity and recovery of functions.
On the moulding side, a basic distinction is made between permanent and lost moulds.
In these writings a basic distinction is made between distributive and procedural justice.
During later stages of spliceosome assembly, there are mediated interactions between the 5'ss and 3'ss, as well as splicing factors that recognize them, and a basic distinction is made between the pairing of splice sites across the exon ('exon-definition') or the intron ('intron-definition') [ 2].
