Sentence examples for abstract conceptions from inspiring English sources

In "To Begin Where I Am," the author's brief opening statement, "My Intention," expresses the lifelong priority Milosz has given to subjective specifics over abstract conceptions: "I have read many books, but to place all those volumes on top of one another and stand on them would not add a cubit to my stature.

The original position aims to move from these abstract conceptions to determinate principles of social justice.

The crucial error in this reasoning lay in supposing that our abstract conceptions are a guide to reality behind the spatio-temporal appearances.

The philosopher, moreover, forgets that his philosophy has a history as well; that its past is shrouded in a faith on which it still depends for the meaning of its abstract conceptions.

This is because such disciples found it necessary to take up questions of one's self-awareness in the relationship between being and Buddha in the immediate present and to delineate a groundwork for deconstructing commonsense subject-object dualisms applied to this relationship without recourse to abstract conceptions of mystical transcendence.

What a fun way to mess with abstract conceptions of the value of objects, right? .

In Mickey One he appears to have started from an abstract conception and tried to impose the concrete on it".

A unit is an abstract conception, defined either by reference to some arbitrary material standard or to natural phenomena.

But this abstract conception has no room for the emotional situation of real, flesh-and-blood people – and how they might act within concrete social and historical settings.

As the editor of Libération, Laurent Joffrin, put it in an article in February: "Only an abstract conception of Man can confer unity upon France".

The rhythm section is now more loosely knit, and Mr. Jamal truly emotes through his annunciatory scene-changing phrases, developing and spilling over into a more abstract conception of time.