Sentence examples for distinction of mind from inspiring English sources
(The "distinction of mind and noble ardor" that he brings to his work did not, Eliot says drily, "penetrate his feelings and judgment about furniture, or women").
Nevertheless, his distinction of mind was such that a reader would think that an uncompleted novel by him, begun and abandoned between the two published ones, would have seen print sooner than twenty-six yeafterfter his death, in 1972, and courtesy of a publisher more mainstream than the University of Iowa Press.
Edith Sitwell, who dedicated her book "The Queens and the Hive" to Cukor, said in her memoirs that the house was "quite unlike any other house I know, and reflects in every way its owner's extraordinary subtlety and distinction of mind".
His longtime friend, the former journalist Christopher Roper, told me, "It is impossible to think of a Latin-American head of state over the past hundred years with the intellectual distinction, independence of mind, and cultural breadth of P.P.K".
In his first letter to Descartes in 1648, Arnauld says, "What you have taught about the distinction of the mind from the body seems to me quite clear, perspicuous and divine" (OA, 38 68).
An outstanding example of that sort of usefulness, in Arnauld's view, was Descartes' argument for the distinction of the soul or mind from the body.
His continued defense of atheism and atomism and his denial of any distinction between mind and matter (Natur und Geist, 1857; "Nature and Spirit") appealed strongly to freethinkers, but dialectical materialists condemned his acceptance of competitive capitalism, which Büchner viewed as an example of Charles Darwin's "struggle for survival".
Quine (1956) introduced contemporary philosophy of mind to the distinction between de re and de dicto belief attributions (as it is now generally called) by means of examples like the following.
Descartes maintained this distinction by positing a substance dualism of mind and body (and by treating animals as "mere" mechanisms, without consciousness, and humans as rational, sentient beings), and such as Hume and later James Mill respected it (or at least avoided dealing with it) by writing about the contents of conscious minds while keeping well clear of neurophysiology.
In this conception of mind no strict distinction is made between the conscious faculty and the actual sense perception of various phenomena.
