Sentence examples for general conceptions from inspiring English sources

Bridgman's critique of concepts in physics also led naturally to a philosophical critique of some general conceptions underlying physics, such as simplicity, atomism, causality, determinism, and probability.

The pre-Socratics thus revealed difficulties in specific assumptions about the infinitely many and the infinitely small and about the relation of geometry to physical reality, as well as in more general conceptions like "existence" and "proof".

General terms are the linguistic manifestation of general conceptions.

This leads to Reid's explanation of how general conceptions are formed.

First, we can appeal to perfectly general conceptions of legitimate authority.

The identities the planners ascribe to these groups derive from general conceptions of single, well-off, or poor people.

Leibniz may in fact accept that general conception of the part-whole structure of concepts.

"The general conception is hospitals don't go out of business," said Dennis Susskind, a town councilman.

No similar single reference point exists for the general conception of number, however.

The New Yorker, August 20 , 1938P. 7 We believe that the general conception of Jeeter Lester in "Tobacco Road" is all wrong.

The public have a general conception if you're a football manager then you're absolutely minted – I'm not".