Sentence examples for conception to which from inspiring English sources

Schelling accepts such a conception, to which he substantially contributed in his early philosophy, as the way to construct a 'negative' system of philosophy, because it explains the logic of change, once there is a world to be explained.

In the first case, a thing is considered in its purely nominal conception, to which a reality, outside a purely mental one, need not correspond (reor is here synonymous with opinor — to imagine, to suppose).

The materialists to which he was opposed (mechanistic corpuscularists of his time) conceived of unformed matter as a type of self-subsistent substance, and it seems to have been that conception to which he was opposed, at least in some periods of his work, not the reality of matter per se.

The programs are developed in accordance with the recently adopted international and federal laws and conceptions, to which the authors of the present paper refer.

The scanty conceptions to which we can attain of celestial things give us, from their excellence, more pleasure than all our knowledge of the world in which we live; just as a half glimpse of persons that we love is more delightful than a leisurely view of other things, whatever their number and dimensions.

The second argument turns, that is, on a retributivist conception of punishment a conception according to which a punishment is appropriate only if it is deserved and a further claim to the effect that a punishment is never deserved in the retributivist's sense if the crime was not efficiently caused by the agent to whom the punishment is issued.

Rather, it is their status as representatives of a separate and overarching conception of space, a conception according to which space (like time) is said to bear an "absolute reality".

If the question about the relation between revelation and philosophy pertains to a decision for faith or philosophy, Strauss's conception of revelation sounds very much like Kierkegaard's conception according to which a leap of faith defines revelation.

Although such precision is desirable, the KiKK study did not analyze residence at birth or conception, which would be more relevant to fetal dose, nor did it evaluate residential history from conception to diagnosis, which would be relevant to exposure history.

By contrast to actualism the conception that reduces possibility to actuality (see Dieks 2010)—some modal interpretations, in particular the MHI, adopt a possibilist conception, according to which possible events possibilia constitute a basic ontological category (see Menzel 2007).

(In fact, College2Startups may be more similar in conception to Jobby, which the RescueTime guys sold to Jobster in 2006).