Practically all contemporary societies acknowledge this basic ontological and ethical distinction.

A distinction between such categories, in making the categories or applying them, is called an ontological distinction.

Ousanas now launched into a savage elaboration of the ontological distinction between ignorance and stupidity.

"a style of thought based upon an ontological and epistemological distinction made between the Orient' and (most of the time) 'the Occident'."

This of itself does not create an ontological distinction; why should social relations be less 'real' than material relations?

They are, first, an ontological distinction between appearance and reality; second, structuralism; and third, the critique of competing theories.

Property dualism suggests that the ontological distinction lies in the differences between properties of mind and matter (as in emergentism).

Gregory's anthropology is founded on the ontological distinction between the created and uncreated.

His concept of man is founded on the ontological distinction between the created and uncreated.

However, some have argued that there is an ontological distinction between the past and the present.