"You can form no conception of the change of opinion here as to the Negro question," the conservative Senator John Sherman wrote to his brother, General William Tecumseh Sherman, in August.
One educated in our privileged land can scarcely form a conception of the ignorance, wretchedness and degraded servitude of the Pawnee females.
Thus, by not taking sides with the metaphysicians, the Buddha described how the consciousness "I am" comes to constitute itself in the stream of consciousness out of the five aggregates of form, feeling, conception, disposition, and consciousness.
There are three aspects of this conception: dukkha as suffering in the ordinary sense; dukkha arising out of the impermanence of things, even of a state of pleasure; and dukkha in the sense of five aggregates meaning that the "I" constituted by any individual is nothing but a totality of five aggregates i.e., form, feeling, conception, disposition, and consciousness.
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.
One would be to defend the thesis that although our natural (and hence material) minds can form no conception of an immaterial, there is another aspect of our minds — an aspect that is not material — and it can form conceptions of immaterials.
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.
Can we form any conception of the means by which this ambitious project of education in self-improvement and good citizenship was to be put into effect?
