Icons, finally, may represent religious doctrine and the theological treatment of dogmatic themes, as well as other religious beliefs, religious experiences, and conceptions of a more individualistic nature.
At the same time, this reconfiguration marks a step away from primarily immanental aesthetic pattern of the li conception to a more abstract, more self-consciously meta-pattern.
It's therefore hard to imagine why party operatives might be pining to nominate a man who looks less like the popular conception of a president and more like the president's accountant.
Indeed, the mutational landscape model treats selection as a stochastic sieve, reflecting a conception of evolution more in line with the thinking of de Vries, Bateson and Morgan, than of Darwin, Fisher and Mayr (Orr literally invokes "lucky mutations" [ 22], the concept ridiculed by the architects of the MS, e.g., p. 101 of [ 23]).
It is for this reason that Levinas returns to a conception of Being more familiar to the metaphysical tradition than to Heidegger's Being, glimpsed in the 'moment'moment
This, Batchelor argues persuasively, "was an entirely new conception of colour: more urban colours than the colours of nature.
Rather than appealing to a background conception of a good human life, indirect arguments more frequently appeal to more mundane facts about the competence of modern governments.
(Granted, a maharajah's conception of a hunting lodge was probably more elaborate than most people's. After all, Louis XIV's Versailles was originally a hunting lodge too).
However, Mill's perfectionist conception of happiness provides a more robust rationale against paternalism.
