Some ancient Stoics defended the ideal of a cosmopolitan society; but this was based in the belief that humans share in the Logos, an immortal principle of rationality that was later absorbed into the conception of God with which we are familiar.
In keeping with Wharton's historical moment, if I'm asked to imagine life in a networked, commercialised collective, I tend to retreat into the conception of happiness offered by Isabel Archer in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady: "A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can't see".
Feedback loops would ensure that users' needs are integrated into the conception of climate outlooks (Basher 2006; Kelman and Glantz 2014).
As more and more nongenetic replicators, including epigenetic inheritance, are acknowledged, Dawkins Genee's Eye view begins to gradate into the conception of the Extended Replicator, which Sterelny et al. (1996) specify as any non-genetic as well as genetic replicators.
The assimilation of many of the positions of Aristotle, rather than those of Christian Neo-Platonism and Augustinianism by major synthesizers such as Thomas Aquinas (1225 1274), involved new insights into the conception of the soul-body relation, the autonomy of the natural order and the role of secondary causes in the creation of the world.
A "new step" that determines the solar potential of an urban area, implements a model connected to the needs of buildings and their capacity to produce energy from solar resource integrating solar analysis with parametric urban design, represents a useful tool to be added into the conception phase of urban planning.
This opposition of concepts introduced by Buffon has been seen by some commentators as a fundamental confusion introduced into the conception of "species" in subsequent discussions in the biological literature, and that this has been one of the underlying causes of so-called "species problem".
I do not have anything like an adequate answer to that question, but there does seem to be a significant error built into the conception of natural properties that Lewis and many others are working with traceable, as hinted earlier, to the undue influence of first-order logic.
But, if you have bought into the conception by that point, those flaws may not bother you much.
S.G., M.W.H., M.J.A.W., R.G.F., and S.N.P. provided input into the conception of the project and all aspects of experimental work.
