Sentence examples for conceived as existing from inspiring English sources

Since antiquity, a majority of mathematicians had carefully avoided the introduction into their arguments of the actual infinite (i.e., of sets containing an infinity of objects conceived as existing simultaneously, at least in thought).

An example of a putatively eternal being in this sense is a God conceived as existing outside of time.

A reviewer here asks whether Hayek assumes that the point of law is to protect property rights conceived as existing prior to legislation.

He even contrives to apply the final notion, "Pure Act", to space: "it is aptly called being in act as it cannot but be conceived as existing outside of its causes.

He argues that a critical account of knowledge is not justified in presupposing some object conceived as existing radically independent of mind, and which then somehow affects it via intuition: to do so would be tantamount to an intolerable "metaphysicism" (Natorp 1912c: 202).

The fretful conceived as readily as the chill.

Finally, the Marburgers follow their German Idealist predecessors in dismissing all talk of things in themselves, conceived as things existing independently of knowledge.

In Id1, Spinoza defines self-causation (causa sui) as "that whose essence involves existence or [sive] that whose nature cannot be conceived except as existing".

In subsequent apocalyptic literature, a sharper distinction between body and soul was entertained, and the latter was conceived of as existing separately in a disembodied state after death.

An earthly paradise is often conceived of as existing in a time when heaven and earth were very close together or actually touching, and when humans and gods had free and happy association.

Self-causation in turn is explained in Id1 as a "nature that cannot be conceived except as existing".