The primacy of being (everything that is conceived of "is") leads to an often unseen consequence: everything that is conceived of or simply mentally represented exists and hence has at least a mental existence (which means either intellectual or imaginary or estimative).
For everything can be conceived of in terms of a relative concept, since everything is identical with itself and distinct from everything else.
If a movie is good, there is a general tendency to believe that everything in it was conceived and worked out according to a beautiful master plan, or that it is the result of the creative imagination of the director, but in movies things rarely happen that way — even more rarely than they do in opera or the theatre.
As the name suggests, materialists historically held that everything was matter — where matter was conceived as "an inert, senseless substance, in which extension, figure, and motion do actually subsist" (Berkeley, Principles of Human Knowledge, par. 9).
Everything about the AHA has been conceived on a grand scale, in keeping with Sabbah's vision of a boarding school that could compete almost overnight with the elite New England prep schools.
Scientists previously set the record for the highest-energy laser shot ever by delivering 1.89 MJ to the target with a peak power of 423 TW on July 3. "NIF is becoming everything scientists planned when it was conceived over two decades ago," said Edward Moses, director of NIF.
It seems to have been conceived as a piece, and everything works.
4 13 – This product was conceived for people who love to read everything.
