But among them, I think, is a kind of relief at the idea of distinction independent of achievement.
Emphatically, Spencer-Brown (1969, Chap. 1) proposed such a procedure as the basis of all cognitive activity: "We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that we cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction".
The rest, he said, had "blood on their hands"—in other words, they had been involved in killing Israelis and/or were affiliated with Hamas or Islamic Jihad, the Islamic movements that oppose the peace process.It is difficult for Mr Arafat to accept the idea of making distinctions (especially distinctions drawn by Israel) among the 2,000 or so Palestinians who languish in Israeli prisons.
And how would Saletan have the slightest idea of the distinction between what the Tea Party says it hates and what it actually hates (even if we ignore the fact that it is not a unified whole)?
In an age as squeamish about aesthetic hierarchy as ours, in which even the idea of a distinction between literature and fiction is held to be controversial, that explanation is, for many of us, more credible than that Flaubert simply wrote a better novel, one that sees more deeply and more justly, and describes the world more eloquently than the vast majority of novels, now or then.
First, he rejects the idea of a distinction between philosophy on the one hand and empirical science on the other hand.
While a relatively large number of respondents seemed to be familiar with the term 'biobank', many had no clear idea of the distinction between biobanking (for medical research purposes) and forensic DNA profiling: numerous respondents chose "I don't know" for the questions specifically focusing on Italy's legislation concerning the latter (Table 2).
A frequent companion of the idea of a simple distinction between black and white is the idea of a simple distinction between racists and non-racists.
One of The Orb's most notable contributions to electronic music is their idea of blurring the distinction between sampling and remixing.
Even Heinrich Himmler, who among the senior Nazis most staunchly supported the concept, could not shake off the idea of a hierarchical distinction between German Volk and Germanic Völker.
The outcome of the Greek elections, and the chaos that has ensued, should have sent a clear message to Berlin, Paris and Washington, that the austerity-first strategy has failed and that the very idea of making political distinctions between 'left' and 'right' has become passé at a time when the EU is disintegrating before our eyes.
