Similarly, the existing distinctions between and across businesses, nonprofit organizations, political systems, and educational institutions can be questioned and evolve to reflect current understandings of how we can most efficiently and effectively satisfy human needs through social means.
Nature is the totality of finite individuals existing in distinction from one another in time and space.
Partly because of the expectation of the imminent coming of the kingdom, Christianity, MacCulloch writes, "was not usually going to make a radical challenge to existing social distinctions".
The pronunciation of one or more of the phones realizing a particular phoneme may change slightly without affecting any of the previously existing phonological distinctions; this no doubt happens quite frequently as a language is transmitted from one generation to the next.
Linguistic coding, they argue, has no causal effects on non-linguistic thinking – it simply reflects antecedently existing conceptual distinctions.
In 1818, when the carol was created, most Christmas music was written with one single purpose in mind: reinforce existing class distinctions.
Notably, the nonwords used in the present study reflected natural language in their variability, such that although we relied on pre-existing distinctions in the literature, there was intra-categorical similarity between small and large nonwords.
Concerning the distinction existing between structured and unstructured interviews, it should be highlighted that semi-structured interviews provide interviewees with more room to freely express their feelings and opinions to the depth controlled by the interviewer (Cohen et al. 2011).
