In my five years in Brussels, I fear I conceived something of a dislike for the Euro-parliament, a body which has stealthily acquired rather substantial powers by arguing that it represents the answer to the European Union's democratic deficit.
It is a continuation of a conversation that began in Beijing to great effect and they have conceived something really remarkable for our lawn".
Van Inwagen (1998), taking note of Yablo's (1993) account of what it is to conceive something, discusses what has come to be a fundamental challenge for theories involving conceivability and imaginability.
… For if no one could conceive something through the sign, it would be void and vain, nay, it wouldn't be a sign".
In a letter to Marin Mersenne (1588 1648), dated July 1641, he says that "idea" denotes "in general everything which is in our mind when we conceive something, no matter how we conceive it" (AT III 393; CSMK III 185).
It is only when one judges of things outside one's conception that one is erroneously said to conceive something which does not exist.
· Starting with a simple premise and exploring the consequences can be better than trying to conceive something outlandish.
The Bengal is proof that G.M. can conceive something more imaginative than a retro version of what came before or the realization of a focus group's muddled demands.
Fury Road was all the more satisfying for just how surprising it was – no one could have suspected that the director whose most recent works included Happy Feet and Babe: Pig in the City was still capable of conceiving something as wild, daring and downright bonkers.
Descartes' well-known distinction between imagining and conceiving something has generated much discussion about the unique role of visual images in mental representations.
The very capacity of human beings to conceive something in the world at all is premised on their capacity to posit values (Sartre 1943a; Marcel 1960a, for the religious perspective).
