Sentence examples for different distinctions from inspiring English sources

Respondents to religious-belief polls may define "atheism" differently or draw different distinctions between atheism, non-religious beliefs, and non-theistic religious and spiritual beliefs.

Personal pronouns pick out the persons speaking, spoken to, and spoken about; but some languages make different distinctions in their pronouns from those made in English.

Hitchcock (2003) argues that there are really (at least) two different distinctions at work here.

However, as with all distinctions, its usefulness evaporates when it is confused with other related but different distinctions.

Once the DR/DN distinction is explicitly articulated and compared with the AR/AN distinction, it is clear that they are different distinctions, doing different theoretical work.

But yet, the abstract / concrete, universal / particular and type / token distinctions are all prima facie different distinctions, and to thus conflate them can only be an invitation to further confusion.[16] Hence, if Oliver's remarks might seem unduly strong, the foregoing observations nevertheless give some degree of credence to his view.

But it has now earned a very different distinction as the test case of the limits of the austerity plans that have been prescribed across Southern Europe.

I'm part of the internet bridge generation (I remember the sound of a dial-up modem), and have a different distinction of online and offline worlds.

We draw a different distinction relating to the psychological and biological prerequisites for first language acquisition.

For a related, though slightly different distinction between kinds of internalism see Brink (1989),  pp. 37-80.

Popper saw this as an importantly different distinction than demarcating science from metaphysics.