Sentence examples for natural distinctions from inspiring English sources

When natural distinctions (e.g., differences in size) became value markers (e.g., that big is "better" than small), desire and domination already began to cloud the true picture.

"Which dao should we follow" became "which words shall we use to socialize people and how should we interpret the words of social guiding discourse in guiding our behavior?" In effect, the early Mohist answer to both questions is settled by making allegedly "natural" distinctions between benefit and harm.

He warned of the "blurring" of the natural distinctions between males and females, and called for humanity to protect itself from self-destruction.

Rather than threatening bodily integrity, the figure of the unstable cyborg-subject addresses oppression and domination by dispensing with identities that inhere in so-called natural distinctions such as sex, race and, for my purposes here, dis/ability [ 30].

Thus, we are left with a question: if we are to continue under the philosophy that species are real and discoverable (even if they can't all be expected to satisfy all possible criteria), are there natural distinctions between intraspecific gene flow and introgressive hybridization that can guide our delimitation of species?

"Her natural distinction reasserted itself and she returned to literature," says Foster.

In a season where the natural distinction between big and small clubs is rapidly vanishing, Nuremberg are about to spring the biggest surprise of all.

Famously in John Steinbeck's novel of migrant workers in the Depression, and now in an opera by Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie, its knights and ladies are poor people of little natural distinction, ennobled by the desperation of their lives.

In natural distinction of stance, line both astonishingly refined and blazingly forceful, easy good manners to others and rapt immersion in the story, he epitomizes everything that is already attractive about the young people around him.

Writing a few years later, he hoped to see in time "a natural distinction between people who happen to be Jews but are citizens of other countries; and people who are Israeli citizens and happen to be Jews".

Mozi's argument for basing such constructions on a natural distinction of benefit and harm was an early step.