Sentence examples for conceptions of the physical from inspiring English sources
The secularization of modern Western civilization has created a gulf between the natural and the supernatural because of modern conceptions of the physical universe as being controlled by scientifically knowable and predictable laws and as existing apart from the influence or control of God.
A third response is to distinguish between various conceptions of the physical.
It is important to note that both conceptions of the physical remain silent on the question of whether topic-neutral or functional properties should be treated as physical or not.
But leaves open the possibility that one might appeal to the object-conception of the physical to define a version of physicalism which evades the knowledge argument.
Writing for an Endangered World offers a conception of the physical environment whether built or natural as simultaneously found and constructed, and treats imaginative representations of it as acts of both discovery and invention.
But the basic ingredients of cognition including fundamental principles of deductive and inductive logic and of mathematics, the conception of the physical world in terms of cause and effect, and much else have great adaptive value, and consequently they have become innate features of the mind.
Science gives us a new conception of the physical world.
(b) The relation between, and the adequacy of, the theory-conception and the object-conception of the physical.
Moore's initial response to this position was that the implied conception of the physical world was just too 'pickwickian' to be believable.
We saw above that potentially the class of properties defined by the theory-conception of the physical was distinct from the class of properties defined by the object-conception.
The scientific revolution of the 17th century, with its stress on the distinction between primary and secondary qualities and its materialist conception of the physical world, undercut the Aristotelian view of perception completely.
