The phrase "analytical distinction between" is not necessarily incorrect, but it may sound awkward or overly formal in everyday written English.
It would be more natural to say "distinguishing between" or "making a distinction between." Example: In his essay, the author draws an analytical distinction between being empathetic and being sympathetic.
One reason for the analytical distinction between the rights of creditor beneficiaries and donee beneficiaries is their disparate heritage.
The present study contributes to literature concerned with conceptualising design imagination as social by identifying an analytical distinction between transitive and intransitive dimensions of design conversations.
The second contribution is to suggest an analytical distinction between systems, actors involved in them, and the institutions which guide actor's perceptions and activities.
Theoretically, the paper locates boundary-work within the sociology of categories literature, and by making an analytical distinction between boundary-work and social closure, provides a perspective for understanding the cultural dimension of professions.
Making an (analytical) distinction between three main dimensions of the interface of policy making, namely the presence of a multitude of actors, the difficulty of integrating different knowledge systems and the need to reconcile different policy levels, enabled us to deal with the complexity of policy making processes.
From an academic perspective, it is important to make an analytical distinction between inequality and equality of opportunity.
Some analytical distinctions between various forms of scientific-entrepreneurship are suggested toward the end of the paper.
The capability approach explicitly endorses and relies upon a key analytical distinction in practical philosophy, namely the means-ends distinction.
This is an analytical distinction made by the authors in order to structure the results.
First, he ignored the analytical distinctions that philosophers in the Anglo-American tradition had made familiar (to be discussed below).
However, from an analytical viewpoint, the distinction between walls and unstable slopes is unnecessary.
