Sentence examples for a conception of an from inspiring English sources

The Act II Vision scene is so painterly a conception of an autumn glade that it rightly wins a burst of applause on first view; but then the dim, tall, blocklike shadows behind the trees make it start to look, weirdly, as if this were Central Park as painted by Vuillard.

This is a conception of an inner urge relevant to moral practice.

Revisionists, on the other hand, tend to see Hegel as furthering the Kantian critique into the very coherence of a conception of an in-itself reality that is beyond the limits of our theoretical (but not practical) cognition.

According to Reid, a memory consists in a conception of an event and a belief, about the event conceived, that it happened to me, where the pronoun is indexed to the person who is represented in the memory as agent or witness.

It would be worth exploring the relationship between the two dialogues on this point, especially given that the Laws seems to endorse a conception of an individual's well-being which could lead them to set aside their own, narrowly-construed well-being in just as, if not more, radical a way than the Republic.

On this view, children start with a very different conception of the world than adults have—in fact, Piaget thought that they start without a conception of an external world at all and they go through a series of identifiable stages that culminate in adult understanding.

Williamson (2003) outlines a conception of a domain of quantification as a Fregean concept under which certain objects may fall.

In it, Cohen articulates a conception of a "religion of reason," and argues that fundamental concepts of Judaism, as they are revealed in historical Jewish texts, were the original sources of that religion of reason.

The sculpture of the woman was a conception of a lighthouse by the artist Alison Saar.

It is, in fact, a conception of a metropolis as a centre of life, more intense, more eager, more vitalising than has ever so far been obtained".

Somewhere behind Miss Porter's stories there is a conception of a natural human spirit in terms of their bearing on which all the other forces of society are appraised.