The story exploits the open texture of culture, and the listener's shared cultural belief that stealing is an act of force, not a claim of justice; that those who engage in it do not conceive of themselves as engaged in legitimate defensible acts.
The idea of renaissance was also foreign to Byzantium, perhaps because it did not conceive of itself as being estranged or separated from its cultural origins by race, culture, and time.
Representational theories of thought like the Way of Ideas imply in this case that I do not conceive of centaurs but rather I conceive of mental representations of centaurs images of them or words about them (EIP 4.2, 312).
It is, of course, a function of the Sharpton personality that one does not conceive of the man as holding down an ordinary day job at a desk.
Although James' insistence on the distinctness of ideas with respect to God's essence is reminiscent of Henry of Ghent's teaching, it is important to note, as has been stressed by M. Gossiaux (2007), that James does not conceive of this distinctness as Henry does.
Mr. Obama, too, is a wartime president, yet he does not conceive of himself as one in the way Mr. Bush did.
An alternative account which the Mādhyamika might want to adopt is one which does not conceive of truth in terms of correspondence with an exterior reality but rather in terms of assertability conditions.
Kant probably does not conceive of God as the efficient cause of a happiness that is rewarded in a future life to those who are virtuous in this one.
In short, Brentano's distinction between primary and secondary consciousness "introduces some kind of level-distinction into the structure of experience" (Brandl 2013, 61) but does not conceive of higher-perception as a full-fledged mental phenomenon at its own, which is why Brandl has recently proposed to regard it a 'one-and-a-half-level theory' (Brandl 2013, 61f).
He's vegan, of course -- look at his parents -- but "he takes ownership of veganism for himself," says Rose. "He simply does not conceive of flesh or animal products as food.
In short, Cobb does not conceive of dialogue as useful primarily to convert or be converted, but rather as useful in order to transform both parties mutually, allowing for a broadening of ideas and a reimagining of each faith in order that they might better face the challenges of the modern world.
