Sentence examples for cannot be conceived to from inspiring English sources
Each wave has its own shape that it holds for a certain time, but the wave is not separate from the sea and cannot be conceived to exist independently of it.
But the body's properties, such as its weight and its colour and its shape, are qualities that cannot be conceived to exist in isolation: they must be the weight, colour and shape of a certain body.
The Form of F cannot be conceived to be not-F (and perhaps is never not-F).
Within D8, there are two Arguments with the following Conclusions: If the one is not, then none of the others is one (D8A1C1), the others are not many (D8A1C2), the others cannot be conceived to be either one or many (D8A2C).
A common claim in the philosophical literature about molecular genetics is that genes cannot be conceived at the molecular level.
This contains the notion of a being that cannot be conceived not to exist.
This independent being is "self-existent, that is, necessarily existing" (D 12, W 2.527), a conclusion he also reaches by arguing that space and time cannot be conceived not to exist and they are obviously not self-existent, so the substance on which they depend, God, must exist necessarily as well (D 13, W 2.527 528).
Consequently, a thing than which nothing greater can be conceived cannot be conceived not to exist and so it must exist.
Similarly (on this interpretation), when I try to doubt God's existence, or omnipotence, or benevolence — or any other attribute contained in the very conception of an all-perfect being — I immediately apprehend, as Descartes writes, that any such sceptical conception of God "implies a conceptual contradiction — that is, it cannot be conceived" (1643 letter to Voetius, AT 8b:60).
Here Dilthey is quite explicit that the commitment to do what is right demands a consciousness that cannot be conceived as a mere reflex to external pressure coming from our sense of solidarity with others.
In both forms of scarcity, i.e., with satiable and insatiable claims, the social right or claim to goods cannot be conceived as something absolute or non-comparative.
