He replied that what he was denying was not the existence of a "difference" in the soul, but merely that the existence of a difference implied a distinction of powers (Quodl. I, q. 12, p. 170, 440 45).
An influential account of Rome as a mixed constitution, in this case combining the three classical regime forms of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, had already been given by the Greek historian Polybius, who referred to this as the distinction of powers (Histories 6.11 18; see von Fritz 1954).
The distinction of explanatory power and predictive power is also known in information systems (IS) research which is an interdisciplinary endeavour between computer science and social/management science, trying to understand and support socio-technical systems.
While most could agree on the questions that needed to be asked about the origins of gender distinctions, the nature of power, or the roots of sexual violence, the answers to those questions were bogged down by ideological hairsplitting, name-calling, and mutual recrimination.
As MacKinnon puts it, "women/men is a distinction not just of difference, but of power and powerlessness….Power/powerlessness is the sex difference" (MacKinnon 1987, 123).
Hartshorne developed this idea by making distinctions between kinds of knowledge and kinds of power.
They also manage to push the great passion and distinction of her life — her pursuit and exercise of power — into the background.
With no rotation of power, Arab countries have blurred the distinction between ruler and state.
While acknowledging that many people had suffered greater losses in the storms, those who had the unwanted distinction of going without power twice in one week spoke of how their nerves, already frayed, were strained again.
They have won 23 of their last 29 over all, seizing their distinction as baseball's hottest team with a fearsome display of power.
