Sentence examples for famous conception from inspiring English sources

For instance, no history of debates about the ontology of space and time would exclude a discussion of Newton's famous conception of "absolute" space (see below).

This would be very much in accord with the famous conception of the harmony of the spheres according to which the heavenly bodies make harmonious music as they move, but neither in Philolaus nor any other early source do we get an explicit account of how the musical scale corresponds to the astronomical system (Huffman 1993, 279 83).

Thomas Kuhn's famous conception of "paradigms" of science which are not automatically rejected because of refractory evidence but are given up only when an alternative paradigm comes to seem preferable can be seen as being in the Carnapian tradition, as can Hilary Putnam's "internal realism" of the 1980s, and both these positions thus reflect some of the motives for epistemological idealism.

As for the now famous iterative conception there were some elements of it (particularly in Dedekind's work, with his iterative development of the number system, and his views on "systems" and "things"), but it was conspicuously absent from many of the relevant authors.

Note that Berkeley's famous criticism of the Lockean conception of abstraction does not apply here, for abstraction in this sense, as selective intellectual attention, was admitted even by George Berkeley, in a significant insertion in the second edition of the Introduction to his Principles.

But I am happily surprised to discover that, as is often the case in China, the real story of the People's Republic's most famous diary demands a more nuanced conception of the truth.

"Günter Grass and Poland", on until January 31, has a newly unearthed photograph from his first return in 1958, clasping his Slav great-aunt Anna, a Kashubian in voluminous skirts who inspired the potato-field conception in his most famous novel.

He is also famous for having promoted a new conception of matter, which allowed for the accounting of physical phenomena by way of mechanical explanations.

This conception underwrites at least one famous conventionalist account: Thomas Hobbes's theory of government as resulting from a social contract, into which agents enter so as to leave the state of nature.

Perhaps his most famous and pointed criticism of the Christian conception of God is that "the Church gave unto God the attributes which belonged exclusively to Caesar".

1. Filing Your Taxes Is Just Getting More And More Complicated: Upon conception, the 1040, that most famous of American tax forms, was nothing more than 27 lines on one simple form.