"I've got no-one lined up, I've got no conceived thoughts and ideas with regards to any names.
For Descartes the fact that one can conceive Thought distinctly from Extension is evidence for the existence of two substances mind and body.
If, on the other hand, one holds that it is the finite intellect that conceives the attributes, and it only conceives Thought and Extension, then these are the only two attributes there are.
He agrees they are "really distinct" from each other (1P10Schol).[5] Furthermore, he agrees that "mind" has to be conceived through Thought, and "body" through Extension.
Furthermore, in the semantic triangle, the Boethian ordo orandi now can be described entirely in terms of sign and significate.[43] Insofar as concepts agree with vocal expressions in their function of being signs, it makes sense to conceive of thought processes as a kind of mental speech (oratio mentalis) showing close analogies to spoken discourse.
I reflect on the influence of Dickinson on the way I think about the world and the actual language with which my brain conceives thoughts and perceptions about my day and life.
Matter, with its properties of extension, impenetrability, etc., cannot be conceived as producing thought.
Indeed, he argues that values are constructed in order to resolve problematic situations, and valuation is conceived as reflective thought that responds to such situations, with the aim of providing means for what Dewey calls the 'directed resolution' of the situation.
Whatever the literal meaning of their words, they were visionary leaders of a nation conceived in independent thought, and would never have wanted Americans more than two centuries later to be restrained from applying their own independent thought and intelligence to the running of the country.
On his view a well-conceived thought experiment can bring on a crisis or at least create an anomaly in the reigning theory and so contribute to paradigm change.
