Sentence examples for distinctly conceive from inspiring English sources

He endorses at most the weaker claim that 'if I can clearly and distinctly conceive of A's existing without B existing, then B can exist without A existing'.

The fact that we can clearly and distinctly conceive of the body existing without the mind and vice versa entails that the body is really distinct from the mind.

Descartes argues, via that claim, from his ability to clearly and distinctly conceive of mind apart from body and vice versa, to the conclusion that mind and body are really distinct (i.e., are two substances, not one).

Indeed, there is not one human genome; there are as many distinct human genomes as there are distinctly conceived individuals on Earth.

As for the category of fallacies of evidence distinctly conceived, it too is divided.

Mill divided the broad category of argument fallacies into two groups, those in which the evidence is distinctly conceived and those in which it is indistinctly conceived.

Although instrumental constructions are mechanical constructions, they can nonetheless give rise to geometrical curves precisely because the motions of the instruments are "clearly and distinctly" conceived.

The other sub-class of fallacies distinctly conceived bring out what is distinctive about Mill's work on the fallacies, that it is the first extensive attempt to deal with fallacies of induction.

That Descartes later admits clearly and distinctly conceiving such a relation suggests, according to Mancosu, that the stated criteria for geometrical curves presented in La Géométrie reveals only part of Descartes' mathematical agenda.

Descartes himself argued from his ability clearly and distinctly to conceive mind and body as distinct beings to the conclusion that they really are separate substances.

Sensible analogies, metaphors, imaginative thought experiments, stories, and anecdotes: he utilizes these devices because they allow readers that are accustomed to conceiving of things by means of the senses and the imagination to attain an introductory understanding of theses and principles that are abstract and distinctly conceivable only through the intellect (not the senses or the imagination).