Sentence examples for former distinction from inspiring English sources

For discussion of the former distinction, see the supplement on Homonomic and Heteronomic Generalizations).

Smith's understanding of the former distinction can help us to see this.

For the former distinction is drawn in terms of communicability and the latter distinction makes no reference whatsoever to communicability.

The former distinction arises from a continuing debate on how to read Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, both on its own and in relation to Philosophical Investigations (see, e.g., Conant 2004 and Mulhall 2007), and is associated with the so-called New Wittgensteinians (see, e.g., Crary and Read 2000).

One way of making the separateness of these two distinctions especially vivid is to note that someone might embrace the former distinction and admit that there are both kinds of reasons, but reject the very notion of a "reason for something to happen" as resting on an obscure, confused notion of a reason that can float free of all possible agents.

These are works of a realigned world, where the distribution of money and power ignores former distinctions of third and first worlds.

The first is, "How do you account for Obama's success among White voters?" The second is, "So anybody who doesn't vote for or criticizes Obama is a racist?" With regards to the former, the distinction between primaries and caucuses, the respective checks and lack of checks they place on unconscious bias, explains a lot.

He's a zoologist, a member of the Royal Society, as well as former RS Vice President and Biological Secretary -- among other distinctions.

In terms of the former, the key distinctions are among real numbers on a continuous domain, real or integer numbers on a discrete domain, categorical data and narrative data.

The caste system continues to persist among Mangalorean Catholics, and as in former times, caste distinctions still figure prominently during the formation of marriage alliances.

Parkinson, Comley and Metcalfe had served former Coalition governments with distinction.