Phenomenal nature, with its distinctions of things and persons (taken as psychophysical organisms), is regarded as an evolution out of a primitive state of matter.
Transcending the ordinary distinctions of things and one with the Dao, "the Perfect Person has no self, the Holy Person has no merit, the Sage has no fame".
Malcolm Gladwell, writer (1963–), Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005)"The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be".
Some of the disputers, in particular those identified with the School of Names, seem to have held that distinctions between kinds of things exist only relative to artificial or conventional standards, which may be entirely arbitrary.
It is, therefore, in this sense that existence is both the source of commonality and of distinction between existing things because unlike the Peripatetic tradition, he is insistent that existence is the principle of individuation (tashakhkhus) of a thing other than its essence.
Some readers made the distinction of how different things always are for boys and girls.
But William is not clear about the importance of this distinction between things and relations.
I think most journalists can make a distinction between the kind of things you are talking about.
On the other hand, the two men who share with Cooper that distinction of winning the thing twice, are Hill and Nigel Mansell.
The power of the latter to make the data 'come alive' or construct a convincing narrative was emphasised by several interviewees, for example: "...the literature on the potential health benefits of universal free school meal provision [commissioned by the Department]... draws a distinction between things that were sort of rigorous and quantitative and then softer stuff.
With regard to the ubiquity of the mental, we might wonder whether every thing has a mind (or associated mental attributes) or whether there is, even from within a panpsychist view of the world, a viable distinction between things with minds and things lacking minds (as we have seen, the world-mind form of panpsychism may have the resources to fund such a distinction).
