The purpose of the qualitative analysis was to give an overview of the conceptions, views and attitudes of German and Japanese student teachers by comparing the results with the literature data.
Nagel calls that conception the "view from nowhere", Bernard Williams the "absolute conception" (Williams 1985 [2011]).
Irrespective of whether or not it is true metaphysically that personhood begins from the moment of conception, a view of this sort should be firmly locked out.
Eddington was persuaded that Weyl's "principle of relativity of length" was "an essential part of the relativistic conception", a view he retained to the end of his life (e.g., 1939, 28).
In this conception, the view is synthetic rather than analytical and, therefore, the focus is on system behaviors rather than specific components, i.e. the complex molecular networks underlying the outcomes that we measured.
Although detailed examination of actual practices of analysis reveals more than just regression to first causes, principles or theorems, but decomposition and transformation as well (see especially the supplementary section on Ancient Greek Geometry), the regressive conception dominated views of analysis until well into the early modern period.
An artist's conception of a view from within the Exocomet system KIC 3542116.
In her view, conception marks not the beginning of life, since both egg and sperm are alive, but merely an increase in complexity.
Add to this conception Leibniz's view that human cognitive processes follow determinable axioms of logic, and the picture that emerges is one according to which the mind operates, at least when it comes to intelligible reasoning, by following implicit algorithmic procedures.
