Sentences with phrase «false distinctions between»

Luckily, with folks getting ever more interested in local, organic food, people are rethinking the false distinctions between beauty and utility.

And that means we need to stop making a false distinction between «the economy» and that thing we call «life».

The appellate court ruled that plaintiffs were attempting to sidestep the requirement for expert testimony by drawing a false distinction between «symptoms of discomfort» and «symptoms of disease.»

Similarly, much effort has been spent in education making a false distinction between «hard» and «soft» skills: the first are touted as essential, the second dismissed as optional.

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Warren Buffett has written that the distinction between «growth» and «value» is based on a false premise.

If the past were a mere nothingness, the whole distinction between the faithful and false memory, between history and myth would collapse.1

Ong is atypical, however, in his pointing out that work, too, «is an expression of freedom and joy» when authentically pursued.67 Ong rightly understands that it is false to draw a distinction between play as individual, free, and spontaneous, and work as collective, intentional, and ordered.

Oden also has a curious habit of including excerpts whose only distinction is that they contain somewhat involved metaphors — a journey from Peking to Canton, one thief accusing another to the police, a merchant momentarily given false hope as he watches his ship founder at sea, an emperor choosing a day - laborer as his son - in - law, the difference in value between a pound of gold and a pound of feathers, a corpse still able to perform some of the functions of a living body — as if such metaphors were intrinsically humorous.

With so many verses in the Bible dedicated to false preachers, I think that it has to be clear that there is a distinction between believing in a name for salvation, and believing in a person.

The distinction between a proposition's ability to be true or false and its actual truth - value is a significant tenet of Whitehead's theory of propositions.

Both Catholic Scholasticism and Protestant Orthodoxy sought to steer a middle course between such false notions of divine transparency and divine opacity by insisting on the distinction between first and second causes.

In continuing his pursuit of the truth, which carries with it a precise method of making the distinction between the definitely true and the possibly false, he employs the triage of his second precept of Discourse on Method: «The second, to divide each of the difficulties that I would examine as individual parcels, as much as it would be possible and required for a better resolution» (18).

And especially the fact that «the distinction between «learned» and «popular» is one which seems in reading Lewis to be quite false.

The main thrust of his attack is to propose a distinction between «true» liberation theology (which, of course, the church has always affirmed), and «false» or «errant» liberation theology (which, of course, the church in the interests of truth must denounce).

As Cohn Morris points out, television blurs the distinction between messages that are true and those that are false.

The distinctions between «rote», «embraced», «instutional», «creedal», «real», heart - felt... Are all false, made generally to flatter our own egos.

Naomi Phillips, BHA Head of Public Affairs, said, «Lord Carey's distinction between religious and «real» homophobes is false, and should hold no weight in the decisions of our judiciary.

Agreed in the literal sense, but semantically there's a subtle distinction between «fake» and «false»; Trump mostly seems to be targetting non-stories, i.e. deceptive tactics that are intended to mislead, rather than outright falsehoods: inviting panels of biased «experts»; cutting people off after asking a loaded question; making news stories out of out - of - context soundbytes or by association, etc..

@user5751924 An important distinction would be between attempting to collect damages (i.e monetary compensation) versus an injunction to stop making statement a court has determined to be false / unprovable.

The policy sets out a distinction between what happens at the premises, the point at which the alarm signal is considered a «false alarm», if there is no fire; and at the fire brigade where the signal becomes an «unwanted fire signal».

I've always struggled with these separations between craft and art, what I consider false distinctions.

[it's a fine line, sometimes, between ignorance and false flag postings but we do try to make the distinction..

Falsifiability is the idea that an assertion can be shown to be false by an experiment or an observation, and is critical to distinctions between «true science» and «pseudoscience».

The environmentalists» case only exists by blurring distinctions between logically distinct categories of knowledge, by ignoring the order of events, by reducing matters of degree to binary true / false axioms, and by exaggerating the influence of the alleged conspiracy.

The distinction between revealing the existence of the subpoena by action, rather than by inaction, is a false one.