What establishes the distinction of these items is the difference of what can be truly said of them on account of the different conditions they have in this or that.
The main difficulty is the trouble of keeping track of what we are talking about when it becomes crucial to know what pertains to what on account of what; in general, when the conditions of identity and distinction of the items we are talking about become variable and occasionally rather unclear.
The results provide converging hemodynamic and electrophysiological evidence for the distinction of task- and item-related processes, show that they map onto spatially and temporally distinct patterns of brain activity, and clarify the hemispheric encoding/retrieval asymmetry (HERA) model of prefrontal encoding and retrieval asymmetry.
And while there is probably some fine line you're never going to grasp between a collectible beer can and a beer can destined for recycling (do you really care about any such distinction anyway), there are plenty of items you'll know instantly as junk, such as an empty chip package or half drunk beer bottles.
The prototypes have already been likened to a golden cheese-grater, a plutocrat's loofah or even a bling wastepaper basket, but come 2012 the London Olympic torch will be virtually guaranteed the distinction of becoming the hottest item on eBay.
Although in many cases the distinction matches with more philosophical distinctions about the kind of item the noun refers to, the distinction is a linguistic one.
Everything here is impressive: its size (4,400 sq metres); the building's transparent design that seeks to blur the distinction between interior and exterior; the number of items (140,000), freely accessible computers (84), seats (96) and armchairs (138).
Long, technical narratives obstruct the distinction between routine items and true issues.
Factor analyses of the joint set of items from the ISMI and each scale supported the distinction between constructs.
The current basis for this distinction has come from a discontinuity in the slope of the curve that relates enumeration time to the number of items to be enumerated.
