The phrase "difference of kind" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to talk about a distinction between two types of things, as in: "There is a difference of kind between a car and a bicycle - one provides motorized transportation and the other requires manual effort."
This is a staggering difference of kind, not degree.
The Upanishadic doctrine of the unity of selves is interpreted by him to mean an absence of difference of kind among selves, which is consistent with the Samkhya.
He does not accept the idea that National Socialism was more pagan than Christian in its inspiration; he sees a deep vein of Jew-hatred ingrained within Catholic tradition; and he does not think that there was any difference of kind between that old religious Jew-hatred and the murderous racial anti-Semitism of the 20th century.
or is it a difference of kind?
Griffin additionally affirms the numerical difference between God and the world even though there is no ontological difference of kind (2004, 44 45).
The distinction between those moving into "the inside" of reflective thinking and those already there may seem so vast as to be a difference of kind, not degree.
It also suggests that there may be genuine differences of kind among self-directed affections, differences that will generate very different reflective affections and lead us to attribute to some a moral worth lacked by mere selfishness.
We do not distinguish here between villages, towns, cities, metropolitan areas, and megacities (though differences of kind certainly exist).
Instead, he sought to eclipse his most conspicuous difference with difference of another kind: exceptional pitching ability.
Studying their families, I gradually recognized that all parenting is guesswork, and that difference of any kind, positive or negative, makes the guessing harder.
Quine rejected the idea that there is epistemological a difference of this kind.
