This view of the language of ethical and political philosophy tended to limit serious study in those fields until the 1960s, when logical positivism came to be regarded as simplistic in its conceptions of linguistic meaning and scientific practice.
What it does is no more than to apply its domestic policy, rooted in its conceptions of morality and order, to property which, for such a purpose, may fairly be deemed to have passed out of commerce and to be commingled in an absorbing mass.
I think she's singlehandedly brought our culture waaaaay forward in its conceptions of psychology, identity and human development.
But while the ethic of social membership implicit in nationhood is not inherently linked to pro-redistributive views, it is inherently egalitarian in its conception of social status, or at least anti-elitist.
Field of Dreams, I can't deny, is trite and sentimental; it's deeply conservative, not just in its conception of a heartland America, but also in its vision of the innocence of the past (the ghostly baseball players who materialise from the 1980s corn, the disgraced Chicago White Sox of 1919, are themselves trying to return to a prelapsarian state).
Yet neither in its conception of reality nor in its warmth of comedy does it ever fail to be uncomplicated.
American culture, meanwhile, vacillates between elevated ideas of hero worship and victimhood in its conception of veterans, which can be destructive to the veterans themselves.
His long stint at Westminster - he took over from the equally famous Harry Boardman - saw major changes in the format and style of the Guardian, and also in its conception of what sketchwriting was about.
High-feminine instead of fetishistically masculine, glittery rather than gritty, and daring in its conception of character, "Sex and the City" was a brilliant and, in certain ways, radical show.
Head-trip cinema about virtual-reality immersions, it's an analog-age "Avatar," a movie that anticipates "Blade Runner" in its meditation on artificial and human intelligence and "The Matrix" in its conception of reality as a computer-generated illusion.
But Prichard claims that this is just a form of intuitionism in its conception of our duties – at least in its conception of those duties that are grounded in outcomes (137 42).
