Sentence examples for have a conception of from inspiring English sources
Because we can grasp the temporal relations between different cycles or phases, we have a conception of the connectedness of time which gives us the concept of the past (Campbell 1994, chapter 2).
"A lot of people have a conception of what home schoolers are like.
" 'What are the Comets?' " "I don't think people really have a conception of us quite yet," McKinney said.
There is not a human being on earth who does not have a conception of fairness and is not a psychopath.
As a sportsman you have a conception of what a day's work is and if it doesn't involve some sort of physical act you have not done anything productive.
In his dialogue the Phaedo, Plato expounded a theory of literally innate ideas; humans, for example, have a conception of exact Equality, which, since it could not have been supplied by the senses, must have been acquired by the soul before it was embodied (see also reincarnation).
From his earliest scribblings, Mr. Merwin has had a conception of poetry that is strongly tied to music.
In Intention, she criticised the way philosophers since Descartes have had a conception of knowledge, even knowledge of one's own actions, as "incorrigibly contemplative", passive, speculative.
Some authors belonging to the classic psychoanalytical theory had a conception of the binomial activity/passivity as strictly linked to male/female categories.
He had a conception of grandeur that escaped the rather pedestrian German princess, and he understood the effect it produced on the people.
