If we conceive a child with this person, our scent is telling us, we'll produce the healthiest, most disease-resistant child possible.
It does not help much if we conceive of substances as particularized properties or tropes instead.
They would say that, if we conceive of knowledge as reliably produced true belief, there is no need for justification.
If we return to the distinction between corporate and collective rights, group rights have a greater affinity with human rights if we conceive them according to the collective model.
When we speak of justice as a virtue, we are usually referring to a trait of individuals, even if we conceive the justice of individuals as having some (grounding) reference to social justice.
If we conceive of beauty as merely an elegant and pretty value property, then that would be a narrow concept of beauty, which would be a substantive aesthetic property.
He points out that conceiving of the reduction of these temporal asymmetries to that of the entropic arrow evades many of its obvious shortcomings if we conceive of it as a potential a posteriori scientific reduction of the kind now very familiar.
If we conceive of the self as a temporally stretched-out compound of psychophysical events then there is no fundamental difficulty that the same type of event turns up on the cognizing subject side on one occasion, and on the cognized object side on another.
If we conceive of persons as free and equal moral persons capable of rational and moral autonomy, then they should not be under any illusions about the bases of their social relations, but should be able to understand and apply these principles in their deliberations about justice.
As Newman points out (2004, 134), if we conceive a group right as a right held jointly by those who compose the group, each change in the group's membership must entail a change in the identity of the right-holding group.
