It was a diverse development, but in the self-conceptions of many of its most prominent practitioners there was no attempt to shun science or logic or to think that metaphysics had access to facts that were deeper than or beyond those that a proper science could reach.
Until Sept. 11, the only conception that many of us had of the potential dangers of working in a 100-story-plus building was from the 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno.
To clarify this, philosophers have defended a variety of principles and conceptions of equality, many of which are mentioned in the following discussion.
Yet, similar to the conditions found in conceptions of situations of chance, many people hold predictable and readily identified misconceptions about the nature of science (Abd-El-Khalick and Akerson 2004, Cooper 2002, McComas 1998, Scharmann et al. 2005).
For the better part of the last century, conceptions of citizenship, despite many differences, have had one thing in common: the idea that the necessary framework for citizenship is the sovereign, territorial state.
On the basis of such an erroneous conception of causation, many philosophers have arrived at the equally mistaken conclusion that there must be an incompatibility between determinism and freedom.
But from a distance, we can see common conceptions linking at least many of the Indian views.
Baudelaire's self-image, and by extension the conception of him held by many of his biographers, centers on the idea that he is an exceptional case, a genius who cannot be held to prosaic standards of behavior and character.
Notwithstanding important differences, there is a substantial overlap between many of these conceptions of the good as witnessed by the commending of the Golden Rule ("Do unto others as you would have them do unto you") in many religions.
Our study has demonstrated that many of these conceptions are not necessarily applicable in the African context.
First, if a conception of justice requires of many reasonable people that they change their conscientious philosophical or religious convictions for the sake of satisfying a majority's beliefs, or abandon their pursuit of the important interests that constitute their plan of life, this conception could not gain their support and would not be stable over sustained periods of time.
