Sentence examples for distinctive conception from inspiring English sources

Liberalism, which first emerged in the 17th century, has at its core a distinctive conception of human nature.

While "not anti-democratic per se," argues Hanna, this approach "depends upon a distinctive conception of winner-takes-all politics and the denigration of political opposition.

What links the local to the national is Jordan's distinctive conception of nationalism based upon the legitimacy of a ruling sheik of a tribe to which all other tribes in the country have sworn allegiance.

I envision that the Center will be the hub of a dynamic community of creative endeavor that brings together students with faculty members and artists whose interests are well suited to Princeton's distinctive conception of undergraduate education.

To be fair, Mr Hayek did eventually develop a distinctive conception of the rule of law, but it's not that distinctive, and the idea of "an unwritten code" certainly isn't part of it.

Although the Retentional model itself comes in several variants, its proponents share a distinctive conception of the structure of temporal consciousness.

In particular, the project surveys Confucianism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, which have endured, continued to function, and provide distinctive conceptions of well-being and human flourishing.

The traditions of the Naiyāyikas and the Vaiśeṣikas strongly disagreed with the views of the Mīmāṃsakas and they developed their own distinctive conceptions of language, meaning, and scriptural authority.

Both creativity and innovation, however, share the same three distinctive steps - conception, exploration, and exploitation of a new idea - in order to evolve and materialize an initial idea/concept into a higher added value result.

Others maintain that realism is committed, in addition, to a distinctive (and tendentious) conception of truth [Putnam 1981 , 1985 1992; Wright 1991] or, more radically, that realism just is a thesis about the nature of truth that truth can transcend the possibility of verification, ruling statements for which we can gather no evidence one way or the other to be determinately either true or false.

In addition, Mou saw Kant as providing a way of understanding what is distinctive about the Mencian conception of morality, but also thought that Confucian ethics transcends certain limitations of Kant's thought.[28] Since the death of Mao, there has been a resurgence of interest in Confucianism in mainland China.