Sentence examples for conception of us from inspiring English sources

" 'What are the Comets?' " "I don't think people really have a conception of us quite yet," McKinney said.

From the moment of our conception, each of us has a sex.

Gibbon has a different conception of psychology from us.

The standard conception of action provides us with a conception of agency.

Pascal presumably had in mind the Catholic conception of God — let us suppose that this is the God who either 'exists' or 'does not exist'.

In this talk, I argue that this standard conception of propositions precludes us from being able to explain how it is that a proposition represents as it does.

The first is one of coverage: many of the proposals that are relevant to the understanding of ability, especially the classical 'conditional analysis' (discussed in Section 3.1 below), are naturally read as proposals about specific ability in the present sense, and a suitably broad conception of ability lets us keep these proposals within our domain of discussion.

A sufficientarian interpretation of the threshold notion of harm (together with an appropriate conception of wrongdoing) provides us with a plausible understanding of what is owed to future people: the fact that future persons' existence is contingent on our present decisions does not matter where what is in question is our ability to harm future people's interests and to violate their rights.

Not only is it the case, Leibniz claims, that genuine physical influx –the transfer of some property within one substance to a second property– is inexplicable, but more important the logical conception of substance shows us that the reasons for any property that a substance may have are already contained within its CIC.

But by and large, especially in the realm of politics and public affairs, this conception of journalism casts us as arbitrators in a dispute between warring press releases.

In that sense, it is simply a literal enactment of a conception that most of us share: the belief that, when someone close to us dies, the person lives on inside us — that he or she becomes an undying part of our own deepest selves.