Annotated Bibliography, §4.4 The decompositional conception of analysis, as applied to concepts, reached its high-point in the work of Kant, although it has continued to have an influence ever since, most notably, in Russell's and Moore's early philosophies (see §3 and §4 of the supplementary document on Conceptions of Analysis in Analytic Philosophy).
A Bayesian model was applied to determine conception status based on daily urinary hCG values.
Annotated Bibliography, §4.2 The decompositional conception of analysis, as applied to ideas or concepts, was particularly characteristic of British empiricism.
It is a narrative of the aggrieved executive — victim of outside forces, the swells of public opinion pivoting against highly paid chieftains — that could be applied to Mr. Eisner's own conception of his corporate life as chief executive of the Walt Disney Company and how it came to an end after a bitter public fight with the nephew of Walt Disney himself.
The list below is not exhaustive, and some of the objections below apply to some conceptions of public reason, but not others.
Often new discoveries are made, Whewell pointed out, not when new facts are discovered but when the appropriate conception is applied to the facts.
If God bears no likeness to the created order, and if terms like wise, powerful, or lives are completely ambiguous when applied to God and us, the conception of divinity we are left with is too thin for the average worshipper to appreciate.
Nothing about the metaphysical conception of cause when applied to human action need suggest that we do not act according to our own will and could not act otherwise if we so willed.
The conception of space is applied to the realm of our ideas, to the outside reality and to the perception of time as well.
This conception is (for example) applied to certain cancers, hepatitis B, Epstein-Barr virus infection, toxoplasmosis and shingles – all instances where a pathogen is dormant and in selected populations can be reactivated and cause disease.
