If one is to believe in science as the best and only way to get an objective (subject-independent) conception of reality, one might still turn to idealism, at least epistemological idealism, because of the conditions supposed to be necessary in order to make sense of the very concept of a law (of nature) or with the normativity of logical inferences for nature itself.
In another example from Singapore and with parallel study in Korea, Chu et al. (2009) developed LPDI items specifically to assess students' stable or context-independent conceptions in two different situations: light propagation during the day and at night.
In the end, the chummy imperatives of Washington trumped the press's independent self-conception.
There is also the further question as to whether the principles that regulate international or global justice require an independent or separate conception of global public reason.
We used a Cox proportional hazards model with a dependent variable of gestation length (in days) and an independent variable of conception month.
Note that the signaling overheads are independent of the architectural conception for MCP, whereas the infrastructural overheads mentioned above are related to the existing conception for the architecture of MCP.
But it was in the First String Quartet of 1951 that Carter's new conception of independent musical layers, sometimes co-operating, sometimes clashing in purposeful disunity, came fully into focus.
Included in the idea of universality is some conception of independent existence.
Since it relies upon (1) and (2), and (1) and (2) are just equivalent to (Necessitation-T), it follows that Armstrong's argument is incapable of providing independent support for the conception he favours of what it is to be a truth-maker.
For our purposes here, liberalism refers generally to that approach to political power and social justice that determines principles of right (justice) prior to, and largely independent of, determination of conceptions of the good (though see Liberalism; see also Christman 2002, ch. 4).
