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Discover LudwigThe phrase "have some conception" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's understanding or awareness of a particular idea or concept. Example: "While he may not be an expert, he does have some conception of the basic principles of physics."
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Before the research program can be evaluated, we should have some conception of its scope.
Once we make this distinction, we realize that although we must have some conception or representation in order to conceive of something, and that representation is in some sense thought of, it does not follow (contra Berkeley) that what we conceive of must be a thought-of object.
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But you can make anti-art — Duchamp's "Fountain," for example — only when everyone still has some conception of authentic, stand-alone, for-its-own-sake art.
This involves having some conception of the kinds of treatment from others that would count as one's due as a person and treatment that would be degrading or beneath one's dignity, desiring to be regarded and treated appropriately, and resenting and being disposed to protest disregard and disrespectful treatment.
I, of course, had some conception of the demands of remaining a relevant site with integrity, in the vast ocean that is the world wide web, but I am still surprised as to the constant demands" she says.
Herr Goebbel's apparently had some vague conception of this theory when he appealed for humorous contributions from "workers on the Western fortifications and in factories".
When he said that the whole meaning of a (clear) conception consists in the entire set of its practical consequences, he had in mind that a meaningful conception must have some sort of experiential "cash value," must somehow be capable of being related to some sort of collection of possible empirical observations under specifiable conditions.
Medieval and renaissance methodologies tended to be uneasy mixtures of Platonic, Aristotelian, Stoic, Galenic and neo-Platonic elements, many of them claiming to have some root in the geometrical conception of analysis and synthesis.
This broad conception had some validity in Jomini's day.
A lot of people have this conception of a drag queen as some ultimate diva, big-breasted and snarky, with an attitude pointier than her six-inch heels.
Do you have no conception of quiet?
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