Policymakers became narrowly focused on a specific conception of "efficiency" – which led them to favour outsourcing, privatisation and means-testing.
The article on "Music" arrives at this weak-sounding but secretly potent conclusion: "There is little doubt that each reader of this work believes firmly in the existence of music and subscribes to a specific conception of it, yet one ventures to assert that there is none who can imagine life without it".
Equality, however, is a specific conception of justice concerned with the distribution of resources, service outputs and outcomes.
This pessimistic outlook is allied to the activity of critique, but it also requires a specific conception of the self; namely, the self as the "manure" (Gramsci) of history.
The complexity and scope of their arguments are beyond our immediate concern, but one can see how appeals to divine kingship whether God is king or the king supposedly divinely appointed institute a specific conception of arbitrary power in the heart of the political, and, unless confined by other powers (sacred or not), legitimate and unleash uncontrolled and dangerous forces.
Indeed, while the "biological individual" has served as a crucial category to studies of genetics, immunology, evolution, development, anatomy, and physiology, each of these sub-disciplines has a specific conception of individuality, which has historically provided conceptual contexts for integrating newly acquired data.
Through undoing our infatuation with any specific conception of sexuality, the queer theorist opens space for marginalized forms.
Because that which is normal and usual is also considered as natural, miracles have occasionally been defined as supernatural events, but this definition presupposes a very specific conception of nature and natural laws and cannot, therefore, be generally applied.
One question to be debated here is whether Western notions of the moral are so uniform and narrow as to conform to one philosopher's (even a great one) specific conception of the moral.
A second limitation is that we focused on one specific conception of collective agents, which relies on Searle's account of social entities.
Kamal (2006) has a comparable understanding by first focusing on the motivation for innovation, then the specific conception of innovation and formal proposals to the organization about innovation adoption before entering into the actual adoption decision stage.
