Civic humanism is generally taken as an equivalent or as a particular variant of republicanism, meaning a conception of politics in which government is in principle the common business of the citizens.
Given its significance, prior to exploring definitional alternatives, it is thus propaedeutic to review different approaches to definition and conceptualization in general theories that are closely related to philosophy of language, theory of meaning, and conceptions of truth.
Phenomenographic analysis is a methodological approach to educational research in which the object of study is the variation in human meaning, understanding, conceptions, awareness or ways of experiencing a particular phenomenon (Åkerlind 2005).
Gives explanation of the differing aesthetics that characterize the two men's performances; Mehegan has a "wig conception," meaning that he is interested primarily in the harmonic and lyrical structure of the music, whereas Costa has a "funky conception," meaning that he is preoccupied mainly with its rhythmic aspects.
Genetic variants are ideal candidate IVs, because genes typically have specific functions, and the genetic code for each individual is fixed at conception, meaning that variants cannot be influenced by social or environmental factors (14).
This connection is manifest in Putnam's conception of meaning, first proposed in his classic paper "The Meaning of 'Meaning' " (1975), which construes meanings not as purely mental entities (e.g., mental images) or as purely conceptual constructs but as being anchored in external reality.
One apparently clear conception of meaning is that the meaning of a sentence is given by the experiences which would confirm it; holism, however, implies that the idea of confirmation does not apply to individual sentences, considered in isolation from the theories of which they are parts.
Unfortunately, as argued in Preston 1997 (ch.2), Feyerabend completely failed to follow up this insight by endorsing Wittgenstein's non-representationalist conception of meaning, according to which the meaning of a term is determined by its use.
(Ironically enough, Quine, himself, continued to adhere to a verifiability conception of meaning, his confirmation holism leading him merely to embrace a meaning holism and his notorious "thesis of the indeterminacy of translation" see his 1986, p. 155, and the next section).
Concomitant with the demise of positivism and of utilitarianism in the post-war era has been the rise of analytical enquiry into non-hedonistic conceptions of value, including conceptions of meaning in life, grounded on relatively uncontroversial (but not certain or universally shared) judgments of cases, often called "intuitions".
