Sentence examples for a faulty conception from inspiring English sources
So the unwise person has a faulty conception of what is good for him.
But given that pain experiences are almost always unpleasant (in fact, always unpleasant in non-pathological cases), we can easily replace the faulty conception with a new one which is close enough not to cause alarm by its being empty — read (14) with 'normally' instead of 'essentially.' A similar line can be run for (15).
In a study that assesses the capacity of anorexic patients to consent to and refuse treatment, psychiatrist Jacinta Tan and her colleagues have compiled evidence which suggests that one of the most popular empirical tests of capacity may embody a faulty theoretical conception of decisional capacity (Tan et al., 2003a, 2003b, 2007, 2009).
The neutral monist holds that the intractability of this problem is due to the faulty conception of matter assumed in the materialistic framework.
Idealism and materialism start from familiar but faulty conceptions of mind and matter.
Plumwood's answer is that the discontinuity thesis is kept intact by deep ecology's commitment to three faulty conceptions of the self.
It started with a faulty voting machine.
A faulty memory is a good defense.
But driving accuracy is a faulty measure.
