Sentence examples for conceptual idols from inspiring English sources

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It's a good thing for atheists to clear out our conceptual idols.

I am convinced that atheists -- at least the ones I have read and the ones I know -- are working largely with conceptual idols when it comes to their rejection of God.

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Only on the basis of a concept will 'God' be, equally, refuted or proved, hence also considered a conceptual idol, homogeneous with the conceptual terrain in general".

He also notes that evidences or proofs (for God's reality) are not distinct from denials, for they both depend on the conceptual idol: "God".

Here, the term gaze refers not only to the physical eye but to the eye of the intellect; therefore idols can be conceptual as well as physical: "When a philosophical thought expresses a concept of what it then names 'God,' this concept functions exactly as an idol".

One of them, the "idols of the cave", refers to our conceptual biases and susceptibility to external influences.

Conceptual art?

For the cover of "Jeffery," last summer's highly conceptual project, he posed as an haute-couture androgyne; each track of the mixtape is an ode to one of his style idols, including, hilariously, the Internet meme Harambe.

Actors are idols.

It's too conceptual.

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