Sentence examples for Abstract conception from inspiring English sources

Natality insists upon particularity and refuses an abstract conception of what it is to be human.

A unit is an abstract conception, defined either by reference to some arbitrary material standard or to natural phenomena.

In Mickey One he appears to have started from an abstract conception and tried to impose the concrete on it".

But this abstract conception has no room for the emotional situation of real, flesh-and-blood people – and how they might act within concrete social and historical settings.

As the editor of Libération, Laurent Joffrin, put it in an article in February: "Only an abstract conception of Man can confer unity upon France".

Men have practiced music in all ages without being able to account for this; content to understand it directly, they renounce all claim to an abstract conception of this direct understanding itself.

Tools built using the API can make use of individuals' abstract conceptions of place and also provide additional views and analysis of the data.

For social science teaching, it is often difficult to make concrete the notoriously abstract conceptions of the French social theorist, Pierre Bourdieu.

In "To Begin Where I Am," the author's brief opening statement, "My Intention," expresses the lifelong priority Milosz has given to subjective specifics over abstract conceptions: "I have read many books, but to place all those volumes on top of one another and stand on them would not add a cubit to my stature.

The original position aims to move from these abstract conceptions to determinate principles of social justice.

The crucial error in this reasoning lay in supposing that our abstract conceptions are a guide to reality behind the spatio-temporal appearances.