My conceptions of relationships and family were challenged.
These people have old-fangled conceptions of relationships and don't deserve a second look.
One symptom of a teleological conception of evolutionary relationships is a ladderized interpretation of the evolutionary process in which "primitive" species give rise to "advanced" species.
It is clear that this divergence potentially has dramatic consequences for one's conception of the relationships between facts and propositions.
This surprise reflects, however, our anthropocentrism rather than a basic conflict of our conception of biological relationships.
Subsequently, from the 17th century on, the tendency toward a new, natural-law conception of the relationship between state and church began to develop.
A parallel difficulty was widely thought to afflict Marx's conception of the relationship between social structure and political and legal superstructure.
Yet as the emperor Charles V ruefully acknowledged, it was the older building's seemingly endless forest of arches, expressing a much more democratic, non-hierarchical conception of the relationship between a worshipper and his god, that came out the winner.
My conception of the relationship between words and music has nothing to do with song, or opera, and everything to do with the way that music has been deployed in the cinema during the last 70 years or so.
But it was my sense at the time, and it is my sense now, more than three years after my mother's death, that the comfort my mother derived from speaking with him was also due to her own conception — her very traditional conception — of their relationship.
A working group of German academics called "Chimaira" has published a statement on its website defending its approach, arguing that "while it may indeed seem absurd when people like Schulte call for a memorial for border dogs, it is just as absurd to expect an outcry [against such a proposal] from those who have a different conception of the relationship between human and animal".
