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J. L. Mackie regarded Anderson's positive conception of goods as being "hopeless as an account of moral talk and reasoning" (Mackie 1985).

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Thus, even by this definition, the conception of good health must involve some allowance for change in the environment.

Bush, a born-again Christian, may borrow his conception of good and bad from the Bible, but that won't satisfy everyone.

The issue is: we want the intelligences with (morally) good ideas always to defeat the evil intelligences, biological and artificial; but we are fallible, and our own conception of "good" needs continual improvement.

Volkswagen has tested the XL1 to 261mpg, a figure so gaudy that it recalibrates one's conception of "good" fuel economy.

This is a conception of good argument which can be applied to many instances of ordinary argument, but there are many situations in which the success and failure of arguments may be measured in other ways.

From such a liberalized Lockean basis, not wholly experiential but not arrived at without experience, a child may, with further experience and learning, progress to a more mature conception of good and thence to the common adult conception of pleasure as feeling that is good.

Cavell replies that Emerson's (and Nietzsche's) focus on the great man has nothing to do with a transfer of economic resources or political power, or with the idea that "there is a separate class of great men …for whose good, and conception of good, the rest of society is to live" (CHU, 49).

Clearly, this idea of 'dynamic harmony' is what sets the foundation for the peoples' conception of good politics.

I believe our shared conception of good philanthropic stewardship should include attention to culture, especially given emergent complex challenges like climate change.

Among its other gifts to television, "The Sopranos" demonstrated that star quality does not depend upon Hollywood's narrow conception of good looks.

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