Sentence examples for definitive conception from inspiring English sources

The Roman jurist and philosopher Cicero (106 43 bce) articulated the first, and some would say definitive, conception of what is called "natural law".

But the evidence of a definitive conception of the good life remains at most indirect at this early stage.

Plato in the Phaedo does not employ his newly established metaphysical entities to work out a definitive conception of the human soul and the appropriate way of life.

But they sufficed to plant the music in my mind, where my own definitive conceptions soon took root.

To settle such disputes would require a definitive assessment of the conceptions of equality of opportunity and an authoritative determination of the weight that equality of opportunity on its various construals should have against other justice values.

Not definitive, just definite.

Those who deny that these features are definitive of civil disobedience endorse a more inclusive conception according to which civil disobedience involves a conscientious and communicative breach of law designed to demonstrate condemnation of a law or policy and to contribute to a change in that law or policy.

However, what is missing from this conception is the inciting stimulus, that is, a definitive cause of aging-associated chronic neuroinflammation remains unidentified.

Results from this pre-conception cohort program should be able to provide definitive answer to the question of whether the underpinnings of PE and GDM originate prior to pregnancy.

It is necessary here to mention only the three distinctive Roman Catholic doctrines that achieved definitive formulation during the 19th and 20th centuries: the infallibility of the pope, the immaculate conception, and bodily assumption of the Virgin Mary.

Nonetheless we should still "in natural science everywhere apply the same conceptions and methods as the Materialist; but what to the latter is definitive truth is to the Idealist only the necessary result of our organisation" (Lange 1873 75, 3 324).