Sentence examples for former conception from inspiring English sources

Under the former conception, we are aiming at a nominal definition; under the latter, at a real definition.

According to the former conception, facts necessarily obtain or are the case; according to the latter, facts may fail to obtain or not be the case.

Studying and comparing cases in order to rebuild the theory is a departure from a former conception of the theory taking for granted that Silicon Valley was the typical model of interactions between university, government, and industry.

Yet a general theory of boundaries should have something to say about the second conception as well — and more generally about the interaction between the mathematical idealization associated with the former conception and the physical, cognitive, and philosophical significance of the latter (Galton 2007).

The history of criticism is one of oscillation between periods of relative advance, when the imaginative freedom of great writers prompts critics to extend their former conceptions, and periods when stringent moral and formal prescriptions are laid upon literature.

Indeed, the interpretation of the pictures obtained was difficult and naturally influenced by former conceptions of membrane structure.

J Mills Thornton, who studied the political ties between the "yeomen" of Alabama and the plantocracy discovered that, for the former, their entire conception of individual freedom and equality under the law had become bound up with the defence of slavery.

Oman contrasted prophetic and mystical religion and considered that the former had the highest conception of the supernatural.

Another difference between modal dimensionalism and Lewis's theory is that unlike the latter, the former avoids the merelogical conception of the existence of a possible object at a possible world.

This occurs through experiencing the object of learning in new ways and integrating the contrast between the current and former understanding into one's conception of the object of learning.

He's one of three former Croydonians who are challenging conceptions of their hometown with Croydon Till I Die, a reading event that celebrates the music, literature and architecture of the suburbs.