In sacrificial rites it is important to duplicate the original (divine) act; and because creation is variously conceived in different religious traditions, different forms are preserved: the burning or crushing of the "corn mother," the crushing of the soma stalks, the slaughter of the lamb without blemish, the blood spilling of a sacred person, such as the firstborn.
But anything of any complexity, engaged in several activities, is apt to be conceived in different ways by different people.
This book explores the ways in which the spatio-temporal contingency of human life is being conceived in different fields of research.
It was conceived in very different circumstances".
Jonathan J. Miller, the president of the appraisal firm Miller Samuel, said, "The key factor to remember is that these properties were conceived in a different market.
For Spinoza, the mind and the body are the very same thing conceived in two different ways.
For example, while many recognize the importance of integrating technology as the "T" in "STEM," technology integration appears to be conceived in very different ways, reflecting the range of technology integration from superficial to transformative (Romrell et al. 2014).
However, there is an additional possible "stakeholder" that could be conceived in two different ways, either as an almost 90-year-old sculptor from Landshut, Germany, or as a single piece of art, the respect for whose symbolic expression has its own weight.
Europe's energy policies were conceived in a very different era, the early to mid-2000s and even before, when economic growth was robust and there seemed to be lots of leeway to add a few euros onto the cost of electricity, if that might help combat climate change.
"The scheme was conceived in an entirely different world when the offer of £6m was made in 2007 and we, along with many others, could not have foreseen the financial landscape of today".
Such properties are not much like meanings or concepts, and so it is possible to discover that a property conceived of in one way (e.g., the property of being water) is identical with a property conceived in some quite different way (e.g., the property of being an aggregate of molecules of H2O).
