Initially, it must be assumed that the three approaches may differ substantially, or merely in emphasis, and thus that each question in aesthetics has a tripartite form.
All the periods would suggest an acronym, but they are merely for emphasis.
Too much of the debate over how to save the euro puts the emphasis merely on a plan for growth.
In conversations with both Rob Socolow and Marty Hoffert, I believe there is much common ground, and many apparent differences are merely differences in emphasis and framing.
On this widely adopted paradigm, Western or Latin or Augustinian theories are contrasted with Eastern or Greek or Cappadocian theories, and the difference between the camps is said to be merely one of emphasis or "starting point".
David Wasserman is using this moralized sense, when he writes that "[t]o claim that someone discriminates is … to challenge her for justification; to call discrimination 'wrongful' is merely to add emphasis to a morally-laden term" (1998: 805).
Some evolutionary thinkers (e.g., Gould [ 46]) take a reflexively Darwinian view of the evolution of evolutionary thought: the differences between theories (and the changes in mainstream thinking over time) are merely shifts in emphasis along pre-determined axes— a little more of this, and a little less of that (for an extreme example, see Figure 1 of [ 47]).
Did Wittgenstein brandish the poker menacingly at Popper, or did he merely shake it for emphasis?
No thinker arose capable of doing for the Renaissance treatises on poetry and art what Machiavelli did for political science, asserting with emphasis, not merely by the way and as an admission, its original and autonomous character.
(They are the last lines of "Don Quixote," memorable only because it is a reward for getting to the end of "Don Quixote," and of "Candide," whose ringing "cultivate your garden" is merely a repeat for emphasis from the paragraph immediately before).
