The scientific and materialist component was phrenology: the belief that minds come equipped with certain "faculties" (twenty-seven of them, according to the founder of phrenology, Franz Josef Gall), such as veneration, acquisitiveness, secretiveness, hope, combativeness, linguistic perception, form conception, size conception, and so on.
But the linguistic and logical conceptions popular among English-speaking philosophers since World War II may not be well suited to the analysis of emotion.
(Mikyö Dorje 2006: 273) Therefore conventional truth is "one that is devoid of an intrinsic reality, rather it is mere name (ming tsam), mere sign (rda tsam), mere linguistic convention (tha snyad tsam), mere conception (rnam par rtog pa tsam) and mere fabrication (sgro btags pa tsam)—one that merely arises or ceases due to the force of the expressions or the conceptual linguistic convention".
First, and taking up a point mentioned in the previous section, it employs a different conception of linguistic competence, the end state of the learning process.
Davidson's thinking about semantic theory develops on the basis of a holistic conception of linguistic understanding (see 'Truth and Meaning' [1967c]).
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.
General terms are the linguistic manifestation of general conceptions.
Students in the experimental learning environment changed their conceptions more regarding linguistic aspects of IR and paid more emphasis on planning and management of search process.
A second respect in which Tomasello's approach differs from that of most theorists in the Chomskyan tradition, is in employing a much richer conception of the 'primary linguistic data,' or pld.
But on the hypothesis that democratically constituted assemblies have justified power to shape rights and obligations as they choose, some conception of such assemblies' linguistic intentions, or of their intention to affect the law in some particular way by the enactment, might be given priority.
This research transforms the psychological conceptions of consumers into linguistic variables.
