Likewise, his critique of the Cartesian conception of matter implies that the properties of bodies are not limited to their passive powers, that bodies must always admit of intrinsic variety, and that ordinary physical objects such as desks and chairs must be ontologically dependent upon a deeper level of metaphysical reality.
This implies that the liberal conception of justice, and the legitimation of political power more generally, can be specified and justified without crucial reference to controversial conceptions of value and moral principles (what Rawls calls "comprehensive moral conceptions" (Rawls 1993, 13 15).
Note that, while there is widespread agreement that a plausible conception of rationality will imply that the self-torturer should resist the temptation to keep advancing one more setting, there is no widespread agreement that a plausible conception of rationality will imply that it is rational to drink the toxin.
They question conceptions of well-being that give a central role to the possession or exercise of the standard array of physical and mental functions, as those conceptions imply, or are often taken to imply, that well-being is precluded or diminished merely by the absence or limitation of those functions.
But this means that many social justice principles will imply that the LPF conception of equal opportunity should not be pursued because giving special advantages to people on the basis of unchosen circumstances such as their native possession of specially valued talents works to everyone's advantage including especially the advantage of the worse off fraction of society.
Indeed, an expressivist may invoke a deflationary conception of truth to support the idea that we can speak of justified moral beliefs that are "true" — without implying that justified moral beliefs accurately represent moral reality.
Our findings imply that the diverse conceptions of caring described by nurses could lead to the nurses adopting different focuses and actions.
But then the idea of formality and the weakest conception of the modal force of logical truths uncontroversially imply that the original formula is not logically true.
(The pragmatic, or pragmaticistic, conception of meaning implies that two theories with exactly the same empirical content must have, despite superficial appearances, the same meaning).
