Sentence examples for a standard conception from inspiring English sources

The philosophy of action provides us with a standard conception and a standard theory of action.

From this, we obtain a standard conception and a standard theory of agency.

The contributions of Anscombe and Davidson have established a standard conception of action, and Davidson's work has provided the groundwork for a standard theory of action.

This is important, because a standard conception of the transition from classical to relativistic physics is that although Einstein's theory of relativity supersedes Newton's theory, what we have is an improvement or generalization whereby Newton's theory is a special case of Einstein's (to a close approximation).

Indeed, many critical theorists who defend a "cosmopolitan" conception of democracy have a surprisingly standard conception of how democracy is best organized discursively and deliberatively.

On the standard conception, a definition is something that provides us with necessary and sufficient conditions for some thing x to be F, so that, for example, it is a necessary and sufficient condition for a number to be an even number that it is (i) an integer and (ii) divisible by two.

More attention would now be devoted to the notions of testability and of confirmation and disconfirmation as forms of partial verification and partial falsification, where Hempel would recommend an alternative to the standard conception of scientific theories to overcome otherwise intractable problems with the observational/theoretical distinction.

From George Moore's The Untilled Field of 1903, the Irish story has shown a tendency to react against the standard conception of the Irish story.

On both views, intentional action is more fundamental than action itself: action derives from and is dependent on intentional action.[5] According to the second claim of the standard conception, there is a close connection between acting intentionally and acting for a reason.

The broader and more standard conception of promoting an action by causing it simply has no foothold here, and if it did then the proposal would not correspond exactly with deontological intuitions.

No one forced the standard conception of "cool" onto a scientific endeavor.