Sentence examples for obsolete conception from inspiring English sources
This obsolete conception, still held by some scholars today i.e., that cannibalism is an especially "primitive" phenomenon and therefore very ancient must be abandoned.
Obsolete since states the version since which an obsolete concept has been deprecated.
First, it recognises that cities grow, oftentimes in unpredictable ways that render obsolete traditional conceptions of urban boundaries.
As a practical matter, Madison's conception of the House is now obsolete.
More generally, (CN) and kindred principles might be thought to rest on a conception of causality that is now obsolete, finding no place in modern physics (Russell 1912; for further discussion, see the metaphysics of causation, §2).
Clifford's conception of an atom, however, is obsolete: 'if the speculations of Lord Kelvin and others are to be accepted, and the prime atom itself is a state of motion in a primitive homogeneous medium [the ether], what is the mental equivalent of this primordial medium?' (114) In other words, Clifford's theory couples material atoms with simple ideas.
Thus, while Newtonian physics clearly became established in ways that made Leibniz's dynamic physics seem obsolete as empirical theory, debate still goes on as to whether conceptions of space-time in post-Newtonian physics is to be conceived in Newtonian or Leibnizian ways.
The common conception at first was that solid-state technology would rapidly render the electron tube obsolete.
"Today—'today' meaning in the outside world," a student said, comparing the school's obsolete irrigation system with that used in contemporary farming, and inadvertently revealing something about the Deep Springs conception of time.
The speed of technological change counsels against regulating the Internet based on any particular conception of the current state of technology, as the inevitable evolution will soon render any understanding obsolete.
