J. J. C. Smart (1953) criticized Ryle's criterion for drawing category distinctions on grounds that it could apparently be used to establish a category difference between any two expressions whatsoever.
French economist Thomas Piketty has spurned the Legion of Honour, the country's highest distinction, on the grounds that the government should not decide who is honourable.
Judith Butler critiques the sex/gender distinction on two grounds.
To the extent that this process hinges on the ability to make distinctions on the grounds of risk, typicality, and appropriateness, these technologies play a critical role in shaping the boundaries of enforcement and thus the scope and depth of the regulatory vision.
Given these problems, Mikkola argues that feminists should give up the distinction on practical political grounds.
Instead, Reid defends the distinction between primary and secondary qualities on grounds quite different from Locke's, grounds that he takes to be immune to Berkeley's criticisms of the distinction.
While there might be strong arguments for drawing such a distinction on both textual and common sense grounds, the question is whether Leibowitz can consistently allow such external concerns to intrude upon religion without usurping it.
Censored games Manhunt 2: Achieved the dubious distinction of being the only game to be banned outright in the UK, on grounds of excessive violence.
He supported his use of a utilitarian standard to evaluate social daos on grounds of the impartiality and constancy of the benefit-harm distinction.
In some studies a further distinction has been made between posterior dorsal and posterior ventral areas 23b, partly on grounds of connectivity (Shibata & Yukie, 2003; Vogt et al., 2005).
This should be given a special status with rigid distinctions made on whatever grounds the American military can dream up, but especially on grounds of religion".
