It is, I believe, the closest thing some of us have to vocation, an almost irrational commitment to the accurate, powerful depiction of what we've felt, seen, believed, conceived and imagined.
The content of a certain epistemic or intentional state can be analyzed as the set of worlds where things stand as they are believed, conceived, or represented as being; and this may include impossible worlds of various kinds.
An Al Qaeda paymaster who disbursed money to the Sept. 11 hijackers shared a credit card account with Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, establishing the first known link between the plot and the man U.S. officials believe conceived it, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told Congress in testimony that was declassified Thursday.
After a year spent helping tenants here prepare for and deal with the consequences of the policy, Heywood is being frustrated by an initiative he believes was conceived in Whitehall, with the London housing market in mind, by people with little understanding of the housing sector elsewhere in the country.
Sontag believed she was conceived in China, in Tientsin, where her father, Jack Rosenblatt, who died when she was five, worked as a fur trader.
Descartes believed he had conceived a new kind of telescope lens, shaped by the light of reason itself, & surpassing anything ever to come from the hands of the glass-working craftsmen of the era.
It is a venerable slogan due to David Hume, and inherited by the empiricist tradition, that the impossible cannot be believed, or even conceived.
The exhibition will also bring together Tate's The Snail 1953, its sister work Memory of Oceania 1953 and Large Composition with Masks 1953 - which, it is believed, were originally conceived as a unified whole.
Now my brother has two children whom he believes his wife conceived with her own father.
Robert Skidelsky – Keynes' masterly biographer – believes that Lopokova conceived and then miscarried, but I think that assumption is based on a misinterpreted letter.
As he explained in a recent interview in New York, Mr. Tetzlaff firmly believes that Bach conceived these six works as a unified statement.
