Sentence examples for mistaken conception from inspiring English sources

Johnson: "Because of mistaken conception".

(1980, 43) (It is possible, though, that in this passage Kripke's principal target is not a mistaken conception of our epistemological access to other possible worlds, but what he takes to be a mistaken ('foreign country') conception of their nature: a conception that (when divorced from the fanciful epistemology) would be entirely appropriate for a Lewisian realist about worlds).

The claim that this is, straightforwardly, a mistaken conception, reveals the point that eudaimonia is, avowedly, a moralized, or "value-laden" concept of happiness, something like "true" or "real" happiness or "the sort of happiness worth seeking or having".

"I think it is a mistaken conception that all customers want 'quadruple-play' in the near term," he said, arguing most will prefer to choose firms based on who is best at a given service.

Such usages are on a par with, and closely allied to, the mistaken conception of ≻ as a kind of connective).

When it comes to meaning, there is the option of attributing meaning errors and explaining the error by appealing to the subject's mistaken conception of the meaning of an expression, thereby rationalizing her reasoning and actions.

What did their images, including mistaken conceptions of who they were, tell us about the cultures that mythologized them?

The arguments for redistribution of wealth, and for prohibiting certain transactions such as price-gouging, both are based in mistaken conceptions of exchange.

That is, the characteristically Buddhist denial of self is interpreted to refer only to mistaken conceptions of self – such as that of a permanent, singular, or truly existing entity – not the self simpliciter.

They see writing it as a golden opportunity to be exploited, to turn Egypt from a civil state that has been open to all citizens since the 19th century into a religious state in which the religious sheikhs hold absolute power based on their understanding of religion, however strange or mistaken their conception of it may be.

This exciting collection, moving beyond recent scholarship, shows just how mistaken these conceptions are.