What is "distinctions"

Usage examples of "distinctions".

To the world of appearance belongs all differentiation, all generation and destruction, all motion and change, whereas the Truth is as it is, perfectly self-existing, and not open to any differentiation or distinctions of any sort.

Quenya pronominal system, as Tolkien envisioned it in his later years, makes some distinctions that are not regularly expressed in English.

No qualitative distinctions to be forged, only quantative extensions to be measured.

He did what he could to get back into her good graces by telling her what he knew about distinctions and dignities that he now saw among the breakfasters.

It reads the affirmation of life and freedom as involving a repudiation of qualitative distinctions, a rejection of constitutive goods as such, while these are themselves reflections of qualitative distinctions and presuppose some conception of qualitative goods.

Interiors deal with degrees of intentions, not extensions, and trying to convert all evolutionary changes into physical size is simply part of the flattening of the Kosmos, part of the brutalization of qualitative distinctions, that has marked the instrumentalism of all flatland ontologies.

These proceed from imagination and affection, and abate somewhat of the angular distinctions of objects.

The Nondual traditions make a series of very fine distinctions here, which at least should be briefly mentioned.

The Great Chain tottered off into empirical observables, degrees of depth collapsed into degrees of span, interpretive dimensions disappeared into empirical action terms, and qualitative distinctions melted down into functional interrelations of span: the great interlocking order of empirical surfaces.

And, as the previous section on Habits of the heart makes obvious, Bellah has become quite sensitive to the importance of qualitative distinctions and ontological values in providing the meaning component of the desired integration, none of which can be covered by cybernetic or systems theory.

World Soul and Eco-Noetic Self is misinterpreted in terms of a flatland holism that, in leveling qualitative distinctions, paralyzes actions that would further the descent of that World Soul.

Perhaps future publications will throw more light on whatever subtle distinctions Tolkien had in mind.

Cetology than any other detached bodily distinctions, which the whale, in his kinds, presents.

And if you descend into the bowels of the various leviathans, why there you will not find distinctions a fiftieth part as available to the systematizer as those external ones already enumerated.

Were all distinctions abolished, the strongest would not long acquiesce, but would endeavour to obtain a superiority by their bodily strength.