Sentence examples for conception in mind from inspiring English sources

It would be an excessively charitable stretch to suggest that Mr. Newman had an ingenious conception in mind, even if it doesn't work.

Scientists first try to clarify and make explicit a conception in their minds, then attempt to apply it to the facts they have precisely examined, to determine whether the conception can colligate the facts into a law.

There can be little doubt that Kant has our geometric conception of space in mind throughout the Transcendental Aesthetic this is clear in the third argument of the metaphysical exposition and throughout the transcendental exposition.

They talk about nonviolence, with various conceptions of it in mind, and hope for the best.

(c.1) If we set this beside the comment quoted above that "conception in the human mind is the assimilation of beings," it is clear that "assimilating" and "measuring" are the dominant metaphors Nicholas uses to understand what we do as knowers.

We would be well served to keep this public-spirited conception of learning squarely in mind.

Although TEC serves reasonably well as a theoretical starting point to explain embodied cognition, its original conception did not have embodied cognition in mind.

Not surprisingly, it was Lipps's conception of empathy that Titchener had in mind in his translation of "Einfühlung" as "empathy".

Pascal presumably had in mind the Catholic conception of God — let us suppose that this is the God who either 'exists' or 'does not exist'.

Tomasello refers to Searle's, Gilbert's and Bratman's accounts, but remains largely noncommittal as to the question of what exactly the conception of shared intention he has in mind amounts to (Schmid 2012).

Nevertheless, the definition of a human being he perhaps has in mind the Platonic conception of the human being as "a soul using a body"—involves a reference to the body, and it this, William thinks, that has led people to believe that the body is a part of a human being.