(Mikyö Dorje 2006: 273) Therefore conventional truth is "one that is devoid of an intrinsic reality, rather it is mere name (ming tsam), mere sign (rda tsam), mere linguistic convention (tha snyad tsam), mere conception (rnam par rtog pa tsam) and mere fabrication (sgro btags pa tsam)—one that merely arises or ceases due to the force of the expressions or the conceptual linguistic convention".
It's only necessary to defend someone against the charge of being a mere observer if you have a narrow conception of realism, and observation.
That approach presupposed a conception of the individual as a mere thinking subject (or "thinking substance") who is radically distinct from the world and therefore cognitively isolated from it.
In 2012, astronomers reported a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B, an orange star that belongs to the closest star system to the sun, located a mere 4.3 light-years from Earth (artist's conception shown).
A year earlier it showed a mere 1% rise.
DT, like all other carriers, is fighting against the conception and potentially grim financial reality that it is a mere commoditized bitpipe, with software/apps and device companies hogging the communications limelight.
This conception implies that the universal is "strictly objective" and "not a mere thought of ours" (SI, 335).
Besson, who wrote the screenplay, too, seems to have delighted himself in a writers' room for one, exhausting his pleasure in the conception and description of fantastic extravagances and leaving their realization to a mere execution.
On the one hand, Mally's contribution to Meinong's theory of objects is not a mere extension of his teacher's work, but rather a real alternative that, in turn, influenced Meinong's own conceptions.
