Sentence examples for conceptions in terms of from inspiring English sources

Neither was his work here primarily ideological, for though Burke had a practical goal in view, and at that one consistent with the Rockingham achievements of 1766, he worked philosophically to modify the conceptions in terms of which his contemporaries viewed their situation, rather than using his conceptual tools as ways of defending those conceptions without modifying them.

Moreover, the rank order of the alternative conceptions in terms of prevalence was stable across the three subject populations (2Y-Intro, 2Y-Intro, and 4Y-Adv; Figure 2; Table 4).

The underdetermination remains, of course: between an understanding of the given quantum field in terms of some kind of global substance and the alternative conception in terms of the properties of space-time regions.

In classical physics we are faced with a choice between the view of the field as a kind of global substance or stuff and an alternative conception in terms of field quantities assigned to and hence as properties of, the points of space-time.

> -wrap-foot> Table  I shows clear and consistent differences across the conception groups in terms of demographic, socioeconomic and behavioural factors.

What are the two conceptions of reality, in terms of general relativity and quantum mechanics?

Wansing (2006) also distinguishes different conceptions of contrariety in terms of derivability and non-derivability conditions.

This sets the basis for a conception of understanding in terms of unification and concrete modelling, or representation.

Moreover, in On Liberty and elsewhere he embraces a "progressive" conception of happiness in terms of reflective self-examination and directive self-control.

Although he does not couch his conception of liberalism in terms of autonomy, Dworkin's view can be understood as in this category: see R. Dworkin 2000, 237-84.

From such a position, he continues, the way is not long to a conception of truth in terms of the methods provided by the natural sciences alone.