Sentence examples for conception of objects from inspiring English sources

Such a geometrical representation of physics cannot really be said to be right or wrong, for it only implements, if it can, current ideas governing the conception of objects and properties of an impersonal objective external world.

In Imagine No Possessions, Christina Kiaer investigates the Russian Constructivist conception of objects as being more than commodities.

Hagège delights in describing, for example, a native American language known as central Pomo, which has "a completely original conception of objects", and "five different verbs... to designate the act of sitting down".

In his later works, Mally criticized Meinong's "static conception" of objects (Mally 1935, 1938b, 1971).

These sorts of judgments comprise what I will call the ordinary conception of objects.

Meinong's conception of objects of higher order was strongly influenced by Christian von Ehrenfels Gestalttheoryry (Ehrenfels 1890).

The process by which sensations give rise to our conceptions of objects is something Reid calls 'suggestion'suggestion

What makes us convinced of the accuracy of the conceptions of objects involved in perception is that they arise from our constitutions.

Further, he accepts Berkeley's objections to Locke, and takes them to show that no mental events or states, whether sensations or the conceptions of objects that follow them, could possibly resemble any non-mental object.

However, for Reid, the conceptions of objects that follow from our sensations are not derived from our sensations since they do not bear any kind of resemblance to the qualities which cause them.

Another reason that Reid cannot draw the distinction between primary and secondary qualities in the way that Locke did is that he denies that conceptions of objects which we have following sensory experiences are to be analyzed as perceptions of ideas.