Sentence examples for arbitrary conception from inspiring English sources

Should people be changing their voices to fit a narrowly-prescribed and arbitrary conception of assertiveness?

Arbitrary in its conception and definite in its application, "one drop" is a pernicious and easily ridiculed rule.

Furthermore, since a single concept might not be transferable to arbitrary locations, two supplementary conceptions regarding a sustainable water supply were developed by KIT.

We stick then to our original conception: a definition is an arbitrary stipulation by which a new sign is introduced to take the place of a complex expression whose sense we know from the way it is put together.

In each case, the limits of toleration seem either arbitrary or too narrow, as in the esteem conception, which only allows toleration of those beliefs and practices that can be ethically valued.

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

The appeal of the republican conception of political liberty as independence from the arbitrary power of a master is perhaps understandable.

The fundamental difficulty with Cleanthes's example is, however, that it suggests an anthropomorphic conception of God's nature that is both arbitrary and unjustified.

And reflection on the possibility of alternative conceptual schemes, which "carve up the world" in radically different ways, makes our own conception of which objects there are seem intolerably arbitrary.

Similarly, if conditions such as anxiety or depression can be alleviated by an individual addressing the root of his or her struggle, this challenges the conception of anxiety or depression as a potentially arbitrary chemical imbalance that can only be improved by further altering one's brain chemistry with prescription medications on a daily basis.

Thus, in contrast to the ordinary negative conception, on the republican conception the mere possibility of arbitrary interference appears to constitute a limitation of liberty.