This does not look like a mathematically (or philosophically) interesting conception of perfect numbers, and the same is true of the other points Speusippus makes in favor of the perfection of the number 10.
But this article will take the perfect goodness of God as privileged, and will treat as a crucial difficulty for some conception of perfect goodness that it cannot be exemplified with other features that an absolutely perfect being would have to exemplify.
Because of his inclusion of purposiveness in his conception of perfection, he argues that the perfect can please us "either because of its material, or because of its external form, or through its inner constitution, by means of which it is an instrument or means for the achievement of some final end" (ibid., p. 307).
Mr. Cohen believes that "the implications of the eBay model -- of Mr. Omidyar's original conception of a perfect, global marketplace that everyone comes to on an equal basis -- are revolutionary".
What warrants these confident denials is the philosopher's conception of a perfect being and how this shapes his understanding of divinity.
In Hart-Davis's words, he came nearer than any other human being to Walpole's long-sought conception of a perfect friend.
E. W. Swanton said that McCabe was from "the heroic mould" and that "like those of Hobbs, Macartney and Woolley were essentially qualitative" and that McCabe "came as near as any player to one's conception of the perfect cricketer".
Similarly (on this interpretation), when I try to doubt God's existence, or omnipotence, or benevolence — or any other attribute contained in the very conception of an all-perfect being — I immediately apprehend, as Descartes writes, that any such sceptical conception of God "implies a conceptual contradiction — that is, it cannot be conceived" (1643 letter to Voetius, AT 8b:60).
Charles Burney, the great musicologist, said of her performance that "her voice was a thread and her knowledge of music very inconsiderable, yet by a natural pathos, and perfect conception of the words, she often penetrated the heart, when others, with infinitely greater voice and skill, could only reach the ear".
What Ryu and Impending have achieved with Heads Up! is a pretty near perfect conception of how that should work, since it puts the experience first and ties in the brand component only organically where it fits, instead of plastering it all over the place like some kind of garish overcoat.
They go on to argue that simplicity considerations similarly favor a conception of God as "absolutely perfect", "which is theologically unique in that it implies all the other predicates traditionally ascribed to God" (104), and we may add that this conception is Pascal's.
