Sentence examples for form a conception from inspiring English sources

One educated in our privileged land can scarcely form a conception of the ignorance, wretchedness and degraded servitude of the Pawnee females.

Being able to form a conception of the good and to engage in critical reflection…   7.

The final step is to form a conception of that "true nature" independently of any perspective.

The goddess leads Parmenides to form a conception of what whatever must be has to be like just in virtue of its modality.

Reid, by contrast, takes it to be evident that we can form a conception of our good on the whole and regulate our actions in accordance with it.

The experience of a sensation orients my cognition so as to form a conception of a quality of a mind-independent object.

In this way the past and the present are blended; ideas are thereby generated, forming a conception of the present.

The Indians of the Gaspe peninsula, wrote Chretien Le Clerq, had never formed a conception of any divinity but were charitable beyond anything in Europe, while the Jesuit Le Jeune found the natives of Cap Breton "exceptionally clever, honest and decent, very generous with a cheerful disposition", but also godless.

This means that the universe of sets has a certain inexhaustibility: whenever we have formed a conception of quantification over some range of sets, we can define a set which isn't in this range (Dummett 1981, ch. 15 and 1991, ch. 24; Glanzberg 2004; Parsons 1977).

For Tolstoy, inherent in the structure of the narrative form was a conception of life that accorded linear temporal order a predominant role, and this implied finitude.

We must first form a true conception of these objects of memory, a point on which mistakes are often made.