The first, best represented by Irigaray, approaches sexual difference as a more or less ontological reality, and asserts that rather than attempting to transcend or deny differences between men and women, feminism should embrace the fact of difference and take it as the very foundation of both theory and practice.
The Netanyahu government finesses these distinctions by denying a difference between the State of Israel and the Land of Israel.
By denying the differences that make this society so diverse, you could also be denying aspects of someone's character that are very special to them.
Could an antirealist deflect this challenge by denying the connections between lawhood and other concepts?
"By denying any deep biological or psychological difference between the sexes," he continued, "some influential feminists refuse to countenance any special treatment for men and boys".
The relationalist may respond by denying that there is any intrinsic difference between a left and a right hand, and that the incongruence is to be accounted for in terms of the relations between the two hands (if a universe was created with only one hand in it, it would be neither left nor right, but the second hand to be created would be either incongruent or congruent with it).
Unfortunately, the tendency of policy has been to erase or deny the differences between them.This tendency was most starkly manifest in the decision by the last Conservative government, in 1992, to scrap the distinction between universities and what were previously known as polytechnics.
"The aim is not to deny the differences" between boys and girls, he said, "but to show that they are equal by law".
This chapter explores this dichotomy, not in order to deny the differences between science based, theoretical knowledge, and design thinking and knowing, but rather to understand these two forms better and how they relate to the engineering practice.
In Januarym Kos was a skeptic who denied the differences between the candidates; now he's a cheerleader for Obama who exaggerates the differences between them.
