We may illustrate what we are saying by our conception of the Gods; for in the poets Zeus does not himself sing or play on the lyre.
Features that we should regard as beautiful in a horse developed haunches, curved back, and so on we should regard as ugly in a human being, and those aesthetic judgments would be determined by our conception of what humans and horses generally are, how they move, and what they achieve through their movements.
Certainly, by expanding the curriculum, he expanded our conceptions of not only the law and its actors, but also what it means to be human.
The process by which sensations give rise to our conceptions of objects is something Reid calls 'suggestion'suggestion
Kant raises the same objection against dogmatic rationalism, championed by Christian Wolff and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, which holds that there are real moral truths that we apprehend by rational intuition, and independently of our conceptions of the person (Kant G 4, 443; Rawls 2000, 50, 228).
It may be that, by adjusting our conception of our well-being, and by altering our attitudes, we can reduce or eliminate the threat death poses us.
Martin (2001) proposes that different universes of sets be amalgamated to yield a single maximal universe, which will be privileged by fitting our conception of set better than any other universe of sets.
Here's what I mean by opulence bubble: our conception of the good life, as I've discussed with you, has been centered on what I call hedonic opulence — having more, bigger, faster, cheaper, now.
Various "interpretations of probability", which offer accounts of how support functions are to be understood, may help by filling out our conception of what inductive support is really about.
Our eyes have been opened by our education, and our conception of what is possible has been expanded by our privilege and we demand a better world because it is our right"?
