Sentence examples for conception of experience from inspiring English sources

His very conception of "experience" and its relation to art is at the core of his genius and his frustration.

Moreover, stress was placed on the social and funded character of experience in place of the older conception of experience as private content confined to the mind of an individual.

Still, for the new museum to become worthy of its expressive building, and to join the ranks of institutions that have helped us to better understand ourselves, it will need to borrow the tactics of art: a long and steady gaze, a bravery uncommon in bureaucracy, and a conception of experience not as a lens but as something that we must continue, indefinitely, to excavate interpreting as we dig.

A related objection concerns the relationship between the adverbial theory and our ordinary conception of experience.

This notion is probably the closest the Mohists come to articulating a conception of experience.

So there are reasons for thinking that (ii) is not part of the common sense conception of experience.

On our ordinary conception of perceptual experience, perceptual experience is a form of "openness to the world" McDowell (1994: 111).

Underlying this program was Mounier's bold conception of Christian experience, an experience of "tragic optimism," colored both by the drama of Christian existence and by the certainty of eschatological victory.

For more on Beardsley, see SEP, Beardsley's Aesthetics)Beardsley's conception of aesthetic experience is Deweyan: aesthetic experiences are experiences that are complete, unified, intense experiences of the way things appear to us, and are, moreover, experiences which are controlled by the things experienced (see the entry on Dewey's aesthetics).

Thus, we come to the second component of our ordinary conception of perceptual experience: Awareness: perceptual experience sometimes gives us perceptual awareness of ordinary mind-independent objects.

Second, once we are given the distinction between direct and indirect perception, a defender of our ordinary conception of perceptual experience is likely to uphold Awareness in a more specific form, that is, as the idea that perceptual experience sometimes gives us direct awareness of ordinary objects.