As the defining notion of the realist conception was independence, the defining notion of mysticism is the opposite, namely immediacy, the idea that thought and its object must be one.
British linguist Michael Halliday wrote about Whorf's notion of the "cryptotype", and the conception of "how grammar models reality", that it would "eventually turn out to be among the major contributions of twentieth century linguistics".
In an influential study of Descartes (1978), he introduced the notion of an "absolute conception of the world", to mark the ambition of science to provide a picture of reality that is undistorted by any particular perspective.
But attaining this comprehensive and coherent view is impossible because of the nature of thought, and so the role of the notion of the Absolute a coherent, comprehensive conception of Reality has the logic of a limiting case.
New patterns became apparent: the notion of rita, the basis of the conception of cosmic order, was reshaped into that of dharma, or the religious-social tasks and obligations of humans in society that maintain order in the universe.
The notion of conception assumed here seems tied closely to mental imagery: it appears that what Hylas sets out to do is to visually imagine an unperceived tree; in so doing, he constructs a visual image of a tree, thereby rendering it conceived.
The text mocks the orthodox notion of Mary's conception of Jesus independent of Joseph: "They do not know what they are saying".
In modern psychology the notion of the self has replaced earlier conceptions of the soul.
The notion of the bucket list legitimizes this diminished conception of the value of repeated exposure to art and culture.
However, the response to this is that circularity is only a problem if the conceptions are interpreted as providing a reductive analysis of the notion of the physical.
