While Ockham does not assert that a line is actually "composed" of points, he had the insight, startling in its prescience, that a punctate and yet continuous line becomes a possibility when conceived as a dense array of points, rather than as an assemblage of points in contiguous succession.
The second example is Geoff Dyer's "Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D. H. Lawrence," a painfully funny account of how Dyer came not to write his "sober, academic study" of the man "who had made me want to become a writer," a project conceived as a way of putting off writing yet another book, a novel.
All art made by the Situationists, which become known as "situations," is conceived as an onslaught of interventions (in French, détournements) on the everyday routines, entertainments, advertising, and productions of capitalism.
What was conceived as a copy became an immediate memorial to a loss of the right to protest.
Your political intentions can become suspect and you can be conceived as one of 'them'them
For reasons that became gradually clear, The First Emperor was conceived as that bastard species, the drama-documentary.
The fact that Pythagoras, to later ages, also became alternatively conceived of as a Dorian nationalist, a sportsman, an educator of the people, or a great magician is a more curious consequence of the productivity of his teaching.
"Eden as We Recall," which most likely refers to Eden's Expressway, the scrappy SoHo studio where the piece was first conceived, becomes as much about sound as about space.
The Swell Season, which had been conceived as a side project, suddenly became a far bigger band than the Frames had ever been.
What they did not anticipate, however, was that a Web site conceived as a professional tool would become even more popular with the public.
