Psychiatry is hampered by the fact that the cause of many mental illnesses is unknown, and so convenient diagnostic distinctions cannot be made among such illnesses as they can, for instance, in infectious medicine, where infection with a specific type of bacterium is a reliable indicator for a diagnosis of tuberculosis.
It is convenient to make a distinction between the ancient hydrographic system, which allowed agriculturalists, fishermen, and pastoralists to live in the Aïr region about 5,000 or 6,000 years ago, and the present simple system, which forms the basis of the marked difference between the northern and southern parts of the country.
Do we even need fixed criteria, or could we get along perfectly well without "correcting names," merely adopting temporary, convenient standards for drawing distinctions in particular situations?[3] These are the sorts of questions that motivated the intellectually compelling aspects of the disputers' theses and paradoxes.
It is convenient first to draw a broad distinction between European and American structuralism and then to treat them separately.
But, in this scenario, the distinction between China as convenient and beneficial goad and China as enemy becomes easily blurred.
It is concluded that immunocytochemistry using a carefully selected panel of monoclonal antibodies is a valuable and convenient means of making an objective distinction between anaplastic thyroid tumours of epithelial or lymphoid origin.
Typan blue dye (0.4%) was used for staining to differentiate between dead and viable cells because is a convenient, reliable, and inexpensive assay that makes faster distinction between dead and live cells [ 22].
Ehrenfels likewise concludes that this process of distinction soon leads beyond our limited presentational capacities and requires more convenient, though indirect, ways of presenting numbers.
