In other words, boundary work has a paradox in which a mode of distinction can also be a basis for connection (Fechter 2007: 25).
(For a critique of modes of being distinctions see Reicher 2005a).
Despite vast differences in the underlying processing responsible for religious and nonreligious modes of thought, the distinction between believing and disbelieving a proposition appears to transcend content.
In putting forward this theory, the actualist takes herself to be replacing an obscure distinction between two modes of being — possible existence and actual existence — with an intelligible distinction.
To explain this proposition, Gueroult draws a distinction between "modes of substance" and "modes of attributes".
The distinctions between attitudes verbalized in the singular form and attitudes verbalized in the plural form, and between I-mode and we-mode, are not to be conflated with or mapped onto the distinction between modes of intentionality introduced above.
The only distinction between modes of practice should be between those that are intelligent and give immediate enjoyment through charged meaning, including fine art, and those that do not (Dewey 1925a, p. 358).
Overall, the ontology on vulnerable systems shown in Fig. 3 mirrors some classic approaches of hazard and vulnerability research, but also includes sociological theory in the form of a strict distinction between modes of operation of natural, social, and technical systems as well as the thesis of functional differentiation of modern society (Luhmann 1997).
On this approach, Mally's distinction is interpreted as a distinction between two modes of predication of properties, namely, in Zalta's terms, between "encoding" and "exemplifying" a property.
Kumar makes careful distinctions between modes of perception that are often confused (national consciousness and nationalism, Englishness and Britishness, identity and identities).
