Sentence examples for objects of conception from inspiring English sources

By including chimerical beings among the objects of conception Descartes opened the door to the possibility of thoughts without true objects.

The principal philosophical error that led to the reification of universal properties as independent existents is the conflation of the objects of conception with the objects of perception (EIP 4.1, 302 3).

When we speak of imaginary space, many are persuaded that it does not include any judgement on their part, but if one looks closely, one sees that the simple object of conception here is space and extension with its perceived dimensions from which we form a judgement concerning its imaginary nature.

(OPD 6: 227) According to Desgabets, after having distinguished simple ideas from judgement in the Third Meditation, Descartes erred gravely in placing chimeras and other such beings of reason among the number of objects of simple conception.

Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have.

As Peirce wrote: Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have.

The ontological problem consists in specifying the nature of the objects a philosophical conception of mathematics is ontologically committed to.

Meinong's conception of objects of higher order was strongly influenced by Christian von Ehrenfels Gestalttheoryry (Ehrenfels 1890).

Ferris has a chapter for each kind of object, from the Sun to quasars, with what you never find in an astronomy book -- the story of human perceptions of these objects, the resulting conceptions of them and, in some cases, encounters with them.

As with the conception of the objects of thought and knowledge that we found in the Wax Tablet, it is this lack of aspects that dooms the Aviary's conception of the objects of knowledge too.

So, Campbell argues, our conscious experience of objects has a role to play in explaining what provides us with our conception of the objects of perception as mind-independent.