Sentence examples for standard distinctions from inspiring English sources

Quine's work, though by no means widely accepted, has made analytic philosophers at least wary of uncritically accepting certain of their standard distinctions.

As we shall see below, intellectual (and later cultural) history is an integral part of Cassirer's distinctive philosophical methodology, so that, in his case, the standard distinction between "historical" and "systematic" work in philosophy ends up looking quite artificial.

Ramsey 1926 introduced the by-now standard distinction between logical and epistemological contradictions (but see already Peano 1906, and section 3.3.1 of this entry).

For an example of the confusion created by interpreting alternatives $x, y, z, \ldots$ as labels, notice that this blurs the standard distinction between Arrow's condition Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives and the condition of Strong Neutrality.

To the extent that either is regarded as more of a choice than a circumstance – to employ a standard distinction in distributive justice – it might appear that its additional costs should not be collectively borne.

Apart from the standard distinction between the acute nature of low back pain (less than 6 weeks' duration) [ 1], subacute (between 6 weeks and 3 months) and chronic (more than 3 months), the various texts on the question have stressed the need to distinguish between specific and non-specific low back pain.

These are women and men's socially mediated reproductive functions (Witt 2011a, 29) and they differ from the biological function of reproduction, which roughly corresponds to sex on the standard sex/gender distinction.

While there are good grounds to be unhappy with this standard textbook distinction, Leibniz does fit the bill in two important respects: he is a rationalist insofar as he holds to the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and he is a rationalist insofar as he accepts innate ideas and denies that the mind is at birth a tabula rasa or blank slate.

It argues that since no standard for drawing distinctions has a privileged, absolute status, the only way to draw distinctions given by reality itself is not to draw any at all.

Through the years, the rivalry, now 18-14 for Sampras, rarely met the conventional standard for historical distinction.

As a result, however, students on the medical science course had been incorrectly led to believe they were working to a distinction standard and had applied to university on that basis.