Sentence examples for conceive of matter from inspiring English sources

As Gassendi argues, while we might abstractly conceive of matter with one feature such as extension (or none at all, per the Scholastics), matter cannot actually come into existence without the features that God assigns at Creation namely, size, shape, weight, and solidity.

It may be common ground that those agents conceive of matters differently.

Ideally, she wants to be able to create literally anything that she can conceive of, no matter how spectacular or involved.

The materialists to which he was opposed (mechanistic corpuscularists of his time) conceived of unformed matter as a type of self-subsistent substance, and it seems to have been that conception to which he was opposed, at least in some periods of his work, not the reality of matter per se.

They conceived of other matters, including the terms and conditions of freedom and justice; of better terms and conditions of existence and of personal and social identities; of how to resist and endure while creating things of beauty; how to love in spite of their situations; conceived of their very nature as living beings … These considerations took various forms within and across the centuries.

No one likes to be a victim, let alone conceive of themselves that way (no matter what George Will believes).

Can you conceive of such a thing?

The label we apply to criminal acts matters crucially in terms of how we conceive of and stigmatize them.

All that matters is whether it is possible to conceive of a situation in which the conclusion would be false and all of the premises would be true.

He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing.

But, no matter how expert his technique or how potent his charisma, it's impossible to conceive of him as "pigeon-liver'd" or lacking in "gall".