Sentence examples for as usually conceived from inspiring English sources

The claim made here is simply that distributive reference, as usually conceived, is not a property of mass nouns.

We and the hypothetical rational bees will thus have very different moral outlooks, each of which is explicable in terms of our respective ecologies and will seem quite natural to those who occupy the relevant ecology (while the other's outlook will seem bizarre), but neither of which seems to have any claim to be a reliable guide to moral truth (as usually conceived).

After introducing the idea of a universal force affecting all objects no matter how insulated, and noting that gravitation as usually conceived is such a force, Reichenbach writes that: "The solution to the problem of space is…found only in this conception we call conventionalism…which goes back to Helmholtz and Poincaré." (Reichenbach, 2006, p. 135).

The world of the conspiracy buffs has a bibliography and a set of fixed points that run parallel to but separate from reality as it is usually conceived.

Similarly, questions about whether coercive states are to be preferred to anarchy or whether coercion (as it is usually conceived) is essential to state function are not resolvable through the narrower consideration of coercion itself.

The native gods of this region were usually conceived of as feminine, Dr. Ratte noted, although they were not all fertility goddesses.

Fairies are usually conceived as being characteristically beautiful or handsome and as having lives corresponding to those of human beings, though longer.

Trans-boundary water agreements are usually conceived as allocation agreements.

In a newspaper, say, a photograph of a black subject is usually conceived as a window onto another world.

Biographical solo plays are usually conceived as star vehicles — feats of impersonation by gifted chameleons who elicit the pleasure of recognition by channeling famous subjects.

MPRs are then usually conceived as benchmarks to study the human motor control from an engineering point of view and to better understand the human robot interaction from a musical stand point.