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It is a conception which is in part modernistic: tradition is presented as being in constant debate with itself.

That is, Thomas holds that there is a conception which is prior to and presupposed by all other conceptions and a judgment that is prior to and presupposed by all other judgments.

His philosophy of history is initially likely to seem striking and interesting mainly for its development of a teleological conception of history as the progressive realization of "reason" and "humanity" — a conception which anticipated and strongly influenced Hegel, among others.

Colligation, according to Whewell, is the mental operation of bringing together a number of empirical facts by "superinducing" upon them a conception which unites the facts and renders them capable of being expressed by a general law.

This is not a conception which is familiar to us, but Moore illustrates the point by the following case: although knowledge has little intrinsic value, the value of the aesthetic appreciation of a beautiful work of art (which is, according to Moore, potentially one of the most valuable things there is) is greatly enhanced by knowledge about it.

That hostile portrait was the historical foundation of the conception of the sophist as a dishonest argumentative trickster, a conception which remains the primary sense of the word in modern usage, but which considerably distorts what can be recovered of the historical reality.

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On one hand, Mexican citizenship regime is based on a territorial conception, which required a more fundamental change for extending full citizenship to emigrant communities.

Whether a 3-point scale or a 16-point scale is more appropriate is a matter for reasonable dispute, but a dichotomous conception, which fails to allow for any degree of success, is difficult to justify.

The arrangement of this table reflects a dualistic conception, which was apparently not original with the school, however, or accepted by all of its members.

If the more common "narrow" conception primarily involves surveying the intuitions of ordinary people, there is also a "broad" conception which would include anyone using empirical means to address traditional philosophical questions.

The Maisotsenko Cycle (M-Cycle) is a thermodynamic conception which captures energy from the air by utilizing the psychrometric renewable energy available from the latent heat of water evaporating into the air.

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