Sentence examples for conceptual constructs from inspiring English sources

In a characteristic move, Ayer now contended that sense-data should be understood not as part of the furniture of the world but as conceptual constructs, or logical fictions, that allow one to distinguish between sensory experience and matter and between appearance and reality.

This connection is manifest in Putnam's conception of meaning, first proposed in his classic paper "The Meaning of 'Meaning' " (1975), which construes meanings not as purely mental entities (e.g., mental images) or as purely conceptual constructs but as being anchored in external reality.

There cannot be different types of nonconceptuality; freedom from conceptual constructs is freedom from conceptual constructs.

Gorampa describes the actual ultimate as freedom from conceptual constructs (spros pa dang bral ba).

When no more concepts remain to be analyzed, no conceptual constructs remain.

There is, for Vasubandhu, no acceptable explanation of conceptual constructs as real entities.

As a conceptual construct, Europa, as the more learned of the ancient Greeks first conceived it, stood in sharp contrast to both Asia and Libya, the name then applied to the known northern part of Africa.

But the adoption and adaptation of the model has also transformed this conceptual construct into an international norm.

And, given that the world is in causal flux and does not accord with any conceptual construct, every duality imposes a false construct upon the world.

Everything that does not have such a causal basis is unreal, and if anything, it is merely a conceptual construct, a mere convention (prajñapti).

These latter are a conceptual construct, as the events are observed indirectly only, and they allow inferring the strategy of the attacker.