"WE SET this nation up to make men free, and we did not confine our conception and purpose to America," proclaimed President Woodrow Wilson in 1919.
But while some conceptions of the specious present are undeniably problematic for these reasons, other conceptions – conceptions which confine it to a briefer interval, conceptions which do not entail detailed knowledge of future events – are by no means as vulnerable to the charge of obvious absurdity.
The health and well-being of individuals and populations are dependent upon a multitude of complex factors, not strictly confined to the traditional conception of the health sector.
The parties' deliberations are confined to discussing and agreeing upon the conception that each finds most rational, given their specified interests.
Moreover, stress was placed on the social and funded character of experience in place of the older conception of experience as private content confined to the mind of an individual.
Previous discussions of his attention to metaphysics have been confined to specific issues and polemics such as conceptions of matter and the problem of free will.
That view is not confined to people who believe that life begins at conception.
The controversy would leave Regius confined to teaching medicine, and his published defense of (his conception of) Cartesian thought would be officially condemned by Voetius, who in five years time would rise to the position of University rector.
It has sanitised the political sphere, and gone hand in hand with the prevailing post-political dogma of life before the first signs of global economic depression: that the political universe is confined to the perpetual growth of markets and the expansion of specific conceptions of order and freedom.
In a well-ordered society with a public conception of justice, there is no need for an "esoteric morality" that must be confined "to an enlightened few" (as Sidgwick says of utilitarianism, Sidgwick, 490).
