They're about our concerns — how we conceive the world.
Luria catalogues various difficulties that S. experienced navigating everyday life, linking them to profound deficits he identified in S.'s ability to conceive the world in abstract terms.
A founder of the theory of law and economics, Posner conceives the world of the commentariat as a market and tries to uncover what economic flaw explains our lousy product.
I think Woolf is right that the cinema's distinctive power involves creating a new kind of visual experience; that its ability to receive and to conceive the world are inseparable; and that the abstract forms at work in painting are inherent to cinema's apparently concrete representations.
We conceive the world both as a community of active spirits, willing and representing, and as an aggregate of objects in mechanical interplay and shift perspectives as needed.
Categories are ways in which humans conceive the world based on certain comparisons that the mind carries out between other concepts, but these other concepts have reference in the world.
Alexander conceives the world as a hierarchy of levels: space and time sit at the lowest level, and through a process of emergence give rise to the levels of matter, life, mind, and deity.
On the latter front, if a religious way of conceiving the world is at complete odds with contemporary science, that would count as grounds for revising the religious outlook.
Quine supports an epistemic thesis when he claims that incompatible scientific theories can account equally adequately for the data available to us (his underdetermination thesis) and that "there are various defensible ways of conceiving the world", (Quine 1992: 102).
