The term 'rigorous distinction' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to refer to a clear and distinct separation, often between two or more entities, such as ideas, categories, or facts. For example, you might say: "This article draws a rigorous distinction between the two sides of the argument."
And it was not until Descartes wrote his "Meditations" at the end of the 1630s that a rigorous distinction between how things appear to me and how they are independent of my perspective entered the philosophical lexicon.
It makes a rigorous distinction between knowledge derived by language and knowledge derived by the body without the intervention of conscious thought.
However, unlike Reid, who was later to argue for a rigorous distinction between sensations, considered as states of feeling experienced by the mind, and perceptions, considered as acts of thinking something about an object, Condillac maintained that sensations do lend themselves to being treated as ideas.
This technique allowed for rigorous distinction of a telomere signal that was lost from a telomere signal that was out of focus.
In order to simplify the presentation, the rigorous distinction of domain vs subdomain has been ignored.
Dynamical GRN models enable a rigorous distinction between structure (topology) and function (dynamics).
He would like to see a "jurisprudence of healing," which puts you in mind of incense and New Age music rather than the rigorous distinctions that the law is usually thought to demand.
Instead of thinking of one dollar as equivalent to the next, the Luo draw rigorous distinctions between types of money, labeling some money "bitter," which means that it can be used only in certain ways.
Thus, as a result of gene flow, any rigorous taxonomic distinction between wild and cultivated barleys is problematical.
Twardowski's mature theory of meaning is connected with the rigorous definition of the distinction between actions and products of actions (while in Relative Truths he speaks of judgments as actions or products).
He also became involved with the Frederick Douglass Academy, a public school in Harlem that has won distinction for its rigorous academic curriculum and stellar basketball program.
