Sentence examples for conceptional from inspiring English sources

Elkin had also differentiated four forms: individual totemism; social totemism i.e., totemism that is in a family, moiety, section, subsection, patrilineal clan, or matrilineal clan; cultic totemism, with a religious content that is patrilineal and "conceptional" in form; and dream totemism totemistic content in dreams found in social or individual totemism.

Among the ancient Greeks, Thanatos (death) is the twin brother of Hypnos (sleep), and from this conceptional relationship may come the view that death is merely a sleeping state in the passage from this life to an afterlife.

No one suspected that the conceptional foundations of physics were about to change again.

Dietrich tells us in the De visione beatifica, that the distinction between conceptional and real being is the first division of being.

Furthermore, ens conceptionale forms a conceptional hierarchy of its own, a hierarchy which mirrors the greater one and at the same time causes and participates in it.

The procession of creatures in the order of conceptional reality moves through three modes of being (specific character, ideal form, and image) culminating in beings that are specific in character, and are images, but without the proper character of individuation.

At the bottom of this conceptional order are the external senses, followed by the interior senses, the discursive power, the possible intellect, and finally the agent intellect at the very top.

Furthermore, conceptional being includes for Dietrich not just the objects of the intellectual act but the act itself.