Sentence examples for imperfect conception from inspiring English sources
Stalnaker calls such matrices propositional concepts, since they reflect the subject's current imperfect conception of the meaning of the sentence.[23] This particular matrix reflects the fact that O'Leary's current epistemic state is compatible with the identity sentence expressing either a necessary truth or a necessary falsehood, depending on empirical facts about the actual context of use.
Wright himself describes it as "somewhere between illusion and imperfect conception".
It is a feature of an imperfect proceduralist conception of democratic legitimacy that a particular decision may fail to reach the ideal outcome here, the correct outcome yet still be legitimate.
One might expect him to have argued in the opposite direction, from an understanding of causation in nature (however imperfect it may be) to a conception that is acknowledged to be less clear, and merely analogical, of causation in God.
And yet, Abelard's conception of consequence is not reduced to (ST), given that imperfect inferences are just as legitimate/valid as the perfect ones: imperfect inferences are those that fail the substitution criterion but satisfy the 'necessity of consecution' criterion.
His conception of legitimacy is thus better described as a version of imperfect proceduralism.
When inference is not used to select the appropriate conception, the resulting theory is not an "induction," but rather a "hasty and imperfect hypothesis".
