Sentence examples for be a conceptual connection from inspiring English sources
Stronger versions require there to be a conceptual connection between pairs of properties (Jackson 2005).
Does Locke think that there is a conceptual connection between freedom of action and voluntary action?
That is, for the internalist, there is a conceptual connection between believing that an action is wrong and having a con-attitude toward the action.
If "X is good" means "I desire to desire X" then there is a conceptual connection, though, as Lewis notes, an "iffy" one, between moral belief and action (Lewis 1989: 116/72).
All of these views involves rejecting motivational internalism even as they each maintain that there is a conceptual connection of some sort between moral claims (or their truth) and action (or the motivation to act).
However, they maintain, the distinctive connection is either itself a normative connection between the claims and motivation or else it is a conceptual connection between the claims (or their truth) and which actions a person has reason to perform (Smith 1994).
Not only does there appear to be a tight conceptual connection between self-governing agency and synchronic psychic unity; there also appears to be a connection between self-governing agency and the diachronic unity of one's later self with one's earlier self.
But there is no clear conflict or even a conceptual connection between Whorf's views about language placing limits on developmental plasticity, and Chomsky's thesis of an innate universal architecture for syntax.
On the plus side, moral judgments will be true or false, and will have a conceptual connection (albeit an iffy one) to our actions and passions.
As Thomas Baldwin argues, "The realist can maintain that it is a conceptual truth that there are necessary connections between the ethical and the non-ethical, even though the particular connections themselves are not analytically necessary".
