Sentence examples for conceptions of space from inspiring English sources
8. Bridgman's empiricist caution was inspired by the success of Einstein's special relativity theory, which exposed the naive assumptions behind classical, substantivist conceptions of space and time and replaced them with operational concepts.
Since the time of Newton and Leibniz, philosophers' struggles to comprehend these concepts have often appeared to take the form of a dispute between absolute conceptions of space, time and motion, and relational conceptions.
Long-held conceptions of space and time — and propriety — were no longer taken for granted.
As such the Balinese traditional-religious conceptions of space are influential in the landscape design.
Thus, questions relating to the new conceptions of space and networks created through the corporatisation of the industry remain unanswered.
It describes the design approach taken by its designers, in which they explored the traditional-religious conceptions of space in relation to the design goals.
Known today as the "Father of Modern Space Art," Bonestell combined his extensive knowledge of astronomy with artistic skill to illustrate distant, uncharted landscapes and innovative conceptions of space-travel technologies.
Thus, while Newtonian physics clearly became established in ways that made Leibniz's dynamic physics seem obsolete as empirical theory, debate still goes on as to whether conceptions of space-time in post-Newtonian physics is to be conceived in Newtonian or Leibnizian ways.
Kant is perfectly well aware of these details from the Scholium to the Principia, but he makes it clear in the Transcendental Aesthetic that he wishes to bracket questions concerning the motion of objects, because motion is an empirical concept, and the Aesthetic aims to articulate a purely a priori conception of space (see A 41/B 58; also MFNS, 4: 482).
