However, the modern distinction between theme and rheme differs from Plato's original dichotomy in one important respect.

The modern distinction between "artistic" and "non-artistic" skills did not develop until the Renaissance.

Contrary to modern distinctions of morality, Witherspoon saw morality as having two distinct components: spiritual and temporal.

However, this controversy is ahistorical, as it projects modern ethnic distinctions onto the past.

This faith in detail makes small works seem monumental and largely obliterates the modern distinction between "major" and "minor" medieval arts.

And it is from him that the modern distinction between statics and dynamics in physics stems.

There are other reasons that the modern ethno-linguistic distinctions are not necessarily the same as the ancient terminologies they are based upon.

Although he did not use these words literally he actually is the father of the modern distinction between foveal and peripheral vision.

The modern distinction between 'high culture' and 'popular culture', for example, is impenetrable without the closest consideration of the shifting structures of social class.

The first signs of the modern distinction between crimes and civil matters emerged during the Norman conquest of England in 1066.