He may have conceived the principle of the torsion balance independently of the French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.
His defiant excess — "Excess, you see, is not excessive when it's been conceived on principle," he says — is a purposeful statement of imaginative freedom and consolation.
This fundamental modification involves several further ones which Herder also finds attractive, including the following: (1) Whereas Spinoza had conceived the principle in question as an inactive thing, Herder's revision effectively turns it into an activity.
He conceived the principle of complementarity: that items could be separately analysed in terms of contradictory properties, like behaving as a wave or a stream of particles.
We must stand in the shoulders of giants – the exceptional persons from all ethnicities and walks of life – who have built the infrastructure and conceived the principles that make this the exceptional country that it is, an continue moving forward on the path they have laid out for us.
It is only in this sense that metaphysicians conceive the Principle as an agent.
It was, and remains, a child of its time, conceived on the principle that the beneficent state should be a monopoly provider.
Alas, like most economic theories, what should happen, what works beautifully in rationally conceived and ordered principle, breaks down at first contact with the collection of irrational, disordered synaptic misfires that constitutes the average real-life human.
In Formstecher's view, there are two types of religions that correspond to these manifestations: the religion of nature, in which God is conceived as the principle of nature or as the world soul, and the religion of the spirit, in which God is understood as an ethical being.
