Sentence examples for fine conception from inspiring English sources

But he was fatally prejudiced against the use of dogs ("In my mind," he wrote, "no journey ever made with dogs can approach the height of that fine conception which is realized when a party of men go forth to face hardships, dangers and difficulties with their own unaided efforts").

What is interesting about this example is that even if we conclude that we should opt for a more fine grained conception of meaning, it is not immediately clear how that will account for the contrast between these sentences.

We simply introduce a more fine-grained conception of observables, but can still impose FM for these new contextual observables.

In fact, Quine himself admits not only that Kim's fine-grained conception is perfectly principled, but even that it "could still be accommodated in the ontology that I have accepted".

Quine (1985, p. 167) charges fine-grained conceptions of the relata with invoking poorly individuated and unfamiliar entities, and recommends extremely coarse (spatiotemporal) individuation as principled and familiar in ontic commitments.

THE jazz pianist JACKY TERRASSON has a fine touch, a clear conception with roots in Ahmad Jamal and Keith Jarrett, and an old interest in taking apart all kinds of songs to get at their potential for improvisers.

That last one was almost platonic in its conception: "the finest cut I have ever created — the geometric design in its purest, most classical form," he wrote.

Mr. Gopnik's new book is largely about that myth and how it has influenced our conceptions of fine dining for roughly two centuries.

The performance of a dynamic separator installed in the cement industry with different conceptions of fine collection outlets, was evaluated using the FLUENT software.

At the core of this conception lies a fine-grained distinction between variations of what he calls the 'I-mode' and the 'we-mode,' all of which specify ways in which individuals have attitudes relative to a group whose member they are.

Barrie Rutter's fine Lear fits perfectly into Miller's conception of a play in which domestic conflict acts as a metaphor for a larger national crisis.