Sentence examples for any conception of the from inspiring English sources

Explicitly adopting one of Peirce's concepts, Royce argues that to define truth using any conception of "the long run" — short of the ideal end of inquiry — is self-refuting.

There are also certain universal evils that endanger a worthwhile human life based on any conception of the good.

Certainly no one on the periphery and beyond has any conception of the degree of enmity that has finally emerged.

Utopia is often spoken of in a general, imprecise way, to characterize any conception of the state that is considered an unrealizable ideal.

He sees "wretched refuse," to borrow Emma Lazarus's phrase, without having any conception of the respect and welcome, and the defiant pride, with which a nation of immigrants ought to imbue it.

Practically any conception of the common good, libertarian or communitarian or anywhere in between, would produce better policy than a factionally-driven approach of further subsidizing the rich while cutting programs for the poor.

But although John's knowledge and use of classical sources was extensive, he was not motivated by any conception of fidelity to the ideas or ideals of classical authors (Southern 1995).

So also, the importance of modern realism lies not in its account of knowledge, but its development of a theory of independence, the rejection of any conception of relative existence and the development of a logic of situations (JAA, Philosophy II Distinction Lectures, 1937).

Bedau argued that any conception of emergence must meet the twin hallmarks of explaining how the whole depends on its parts and how the whole is independent of its parts.

In the absence of any conception of a deity in Buddhism, the question of sacerdotal mediation could be ignored, though in the Mahayana ("Greater Vehicle") school and in the Tantric (esoteric) school some elements of the priestly tradition survived.

The challenge for any conception of serendipity, regardless of type, is the prevailing notion of a mythical "sweet spot" for users.