And, at least within possible worlds semantics, propositions are conceived as functions from worlds to truth-values.
The essay might be read as a 'self study', in which my 'self' is conceived as a function of the networks or relationships in which I operate as a teacher educator and the larger structures that shape my professional world.
The former are conceived as partial functions from the logical space.
In rejecting any link between fortune (i.e., destiny conceived as a function of qi endowment) and one's residence (i.e., environmental factors), Ruan Kan was in effect saying that destiny is entirely predetermined.
Regional brain volume can be conceived as a function of the number of neurons and their interconnections and as an indicator of its processing capacity (Striedter 2005; Barton 1998).
Because of this, we suggest that gyrification is more appropriately conceived as a function of expansion (and by extension differential expansion), with the same mechanism underpinning the formation of gyri and sulci in all species, rather than a process driven by cell or layer-specific changes in the developing cortex.
Planning and problem-solving can be conceived as higher executive functions, which require the integration of basic cognitive functions [ 30].
The attitude reflected in these practices was expressed in the famous dictum of Pope Gregory I, that art is the book of the illiterate; art was thus conceived as having a didactic function.
A more complex town element type can be conceived as a set of functions from E to the Cartesian product of E (times ) E (abstract town names and populations).
In the classical approach by Pahl and Beitz [7], functions are conceived as "operation on flows" and represented using a pair of words: a verb, describing an action (operation), and a noun, describing the object of that action.
