Sentence examples for conception a definition from inspiring English sources
We stick then to our original conception: a definition is an arbitrary stipulation by which a new sign is introduced to take the place of a complex expression whose sense we know from the way it is put together.
On the standard conception, a definition is something that provides us with necessary and sufficient conditions for some thing x to be F, so that, for example, it is a necessary and sufficient condition for a number to be an even number that it is (i) an integer and (ii) divisible by two.
The importance of children's quality of life to these mothers' HRQOL suggests the need for a wider conception or definition of HRQOL, possibly focusing on the family unit as a whole[ 23, 24].
The Naiyāyikas, we might say, have a 'diagnostic', rather than an 'essentialist', conception of definition.
(Half the subjects were given a definition of intentionality; the other half had to rely on their untutored conception of intentionality).
All Avicennan treatises on logic are structured in accordance with this doctrine: a first section deals with definition, which conduces to conception, a second with proof, which conduces to assent.
But this move is not available under a liberalized conception of implicit definition.
This is only a definition.
Conception, by definition, involves "fertilization or implantation or both," so Gingrich's comments over Thanksgiving don't necessarily conflict with the position he stated Friday.
