Sentence examples for conceived of nature from inspiring English sources

He conceived of nature as governed throughout by laws statable with mathematical precision; the book of nature, he said, is "written in mathematical form".

The general framework of this understanding of the relationship between God and humankind is clearly different from the view that became dominant in the Christian West i.e., the view that conceived of "nature" as distinct from "grace" and that understood original sin as an inherited guilt rather than as a deprivation of freedom.

She sees a man lying alone in a bed waiting and waiting, he cannot conceive of what he waits for, cannot conceive of nature, or happiness.

Indeed, once we conceive of nature as an organic whole, constantly becoming and transforming itself, then Schlegel's paradoxical determination "art should imitate nature" (SW III, 306) becomes quite coherent.

The notion of a "logical construction" was also important for how such thinkers conceived of the nature of ordinary objects (see, e.g., Ayer 1952, chap. 3).

It is not clear how Pythagoras conceived of the nature of the transmigrating soul but a few tentative conjectures can be made (Huffman 2009).

Given this, it seems that the only way we can give any sense to the idea of nature as it is in itself is to conceive of such nature as being outside of time.

The problem this leads to is how the subject could fit into a nature conceived of in deterministic terms, given that the subject's ability to know is dependent upon its 'spontaneous' self-caused ability to judge in terms of the categories.

In contrast, the Stoics conceived of an entirely egalitarian law of nature in conformity with the logos (reason) inherent in the human mind.

In Cohen's view, reason requires that nature be conceived of as conforming to a single rational plan and that there be harmony between the domains of natural and moral teleology (ultimate purposes or ends).

Even among analytic philosophers whose approaches were not essentially either formalist or informalist, philosophical problems were often conceived of as problems about the nature of language.