Sentence examples for conceptions of time from inspiring English sources

His attacks were likewise directed against the Aristotelians' conceptions of time and matter.

Older conceptions of time, like the Egyptian and Mesopotamian, did not lead inexorably to a final end, he said.

Early in his book, Gleick explores one of the earliest conceptions of time travel, the Universe Rigid — a four-dimensional construct thought up by Wells.

He also wrote a series of books dealing separately with children's conceptions of time, space, physical causality, movement and speed, and the world in general.

The succession of parent and descendant universes necessarily unfolds in time, and Smolin believes that this is "real" time (as opposed to what he calls the "unreal" and "inessential" conceptions of time in traditional physics).

People harmonize these two conceptions of time by establishing devices, e.g., calendars, to measure time.

But what I admire most in the book is its peculiarly lyrical conception of time.

"Donald did not understand this, but then his conception of time was so circumscribed that it was astounding," O'Donnell writes.

She confesses to a "tragic conception" of time, finding it "impossible to imagine that it could bring progress".

Sometimes it was hard to understand the fluttering swallows' conception of time, as it was hard for them to understand the South Korean fixation with schedules.

A linguist, Chiang thought, might learn such acceptance by deciphering the language of an alien race with a different conception of time.