Sentence examples for on a distinction from inspiring English sources

There is another version of the direct realist reading, this one based primarily on a distinction found in Aquinas, which attempts to resolve the above mentioned sort of difficulty (Hoffman 2002).

The argumentative logic of Areopagitica rests on a distinction between external compulsion, on the one hand, and internal discipline on the other, internal discipline looking something like an internalization of the discipline and the authority of the monarch.

But he always insisted on a distinction between his music and his politics.

Beard goes on: "A distinction that heralds our ideas of the age of criminal responsibility".

All these things could be technically true, but that'd rest on a distinction most people wouldn't make.

Most European intellectuals insist on a distinction between even the fiercest criticism of Israel and an endorsement of anti-Semitism.

On the contrary, the pathos of post-humanist politics itself tacitly relies on a distinction between natural and spiritual freedom.

While the symbolic theory of representation is optional for CN, the modular hypothesis is essential to it and depends on a distinction between modular and central processing.

He adopted a hypnotically drowsy tone on "Better Things," which insisted on a distinction between "the singing of real birds" and "those absurd birds that simply everybody's heard".

The majority decision, he wrote, rests on "a distinction between highbrow dance and lowbrow dance" the state tax statute does not make.

His theology depended in part on a distinction between the Word (i.e., God's self-revelation as concretely manifested in Christ and in preaching) and religion.