Sentence examples for maintained this distinction from inspiring English sources

Descartes maintained this distinction by positing a substance dualism of mind and body (and by treating animals as "mere" mechanisms, without consciousness, and humans as rational, sentient beings), and such as Hume and later James Mill respected it (or at least avoided dealing with it) by writing about the contents of conscious minds while keeping well clear of neurophysiology.

We have carefully maintained this distinction in the revised paper.

Nevertheless, for the purposes of this project we maintained this distinction for conceptual clarity.

SUs were identified as those whose feature vectors formed clear, non-overlapping clusters in feature space (normally the first two principal components) and maintained this distinction for the duration of the recording.

(Palatalization is the modification of a sound by simultaneous raising of the tongue to or toward the hard palate.) Hungarian maintains this distinction, but the original *s words have lost this sound.

The standard language also has a tense sibilant ss in contrast with the lax (and somewhat aspirated) s, but many speakers maintain this distinction only at the beginning of a word or ignore it entirely, despite the spelling.

Nehm and Schonfeld ([2007]) maintain this distinction; however, like Alters, they caution that:Nehm and Schonfeld ([2007]) further assert that it is likely that scientists "believe, rather than accept, much of their scientific knowledge" (p. 719), especially knowledge outside of their particular discipline.

Nowadays many speakers do not maintain this distinction and all nouns may take the plural inflection.

The Bush and Obama administrations both went to great efforts to try to make it possible to maintain this distinction.

In addition, many modern point-and-click statistics packages maintain this distinction, with the tests located under different sub-menus.

However, it is not possible to maintain this distinction, both because values are crucial for assessing what counts as sufficient evidence and because ethical, political, economic, cultural, and religious factors unavoidably affect scientific judgment (Douglas 2009; Elliott 2011; Longino 1990; Resnik 2007, 2009).