Sentence examples for commonplace distinction between from inspiring English sources
But he still maintains the ordinary commonplace distinction between mental things thoughts, hopes and dreams and physical things tables and trees.
They trade on that commonplace distinction between things we know "first hand" and things we have only heard about or read about the things that have been described to us.
Galen's map thus provided a physiological basis for what became a commonplace distinction between 'angry' (irascible) emotions directed at overcoming obstacles, and simple 'desiring (concuspicible) emotions (see the discussion of Aquinas below).
One important question raised by Runciman 1962 is the question whether Plato was aware of the commonplace modern distinction between knowing that, knowing how, and knowing what (or whom).
Aristotle's classification of the faculties of the soul and his location of the emotions among the appetites of the sensitive part remained commonplaces, as did Aquinas's further distinction between the irascible and concupiscible passions.
Returned artifacts involving human remains have become relatively commonplace, though museums containing disputed art have tried to draw a strong distinction between such relics and their nonhuman assets ("bones versus stones") in an attempt to protect the latter from these precedents of restitution.
A distinction between decision procedures and criteria of right has become commonplace in moral philosophy.
The naive distinction between true and apparent motion was, of course, entirely commonplace.
Italos often makes use of another distinction, which is a commonplace in Platonic texts from Plotinus to Simplicius, but seems to have its origins even earlier; namely, the distinction between something subsisting and something depending on mere thought.
The distinction between "societies with slaves" (like New York, until slavery ended there in 1827) and "slave societies" (like South Carolina until 1865) is now a commonplace.
The distinction between huckster and savior dissolves.
