Sentence examples for of a conception from inspiring English sources

He meant by this that each of the composer's dozen great works was the realization of a conception distinct from all the others, rather than successive efforts to attain perfection in the last or best of a series.

Sellars came to prominence in 1956 with the publication of his essay "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind," a critique of a conception of mind and knowledge inherited from René Descartes (1596 1650).

Kunzru gives his central character a magical-realist flourish of a conception, the wordless coupling, in a deserted dacoits' cave during the first, furious monsoon of 1903, of a spoiled Indian girl and a half-drowned British forestry expert.

Mr. Dykers of Snohetta had slightly more of a conception of what his building -- on the northeast corner of Fulton and Greenwich Streets -- should look like: "Simple, very unassuming and perhaps unimposing.

Though arguing strenuously in favor of political and social liberty, Bulgakov repudiates the individualistic basis of Western liberalism in favor of a conception of human dignity that is compatible with collectivity.

In its Constitution, the European Union rejected the Christian moral code of its past, instead choosing as its underlying basis the sandy foundations of economics and of a conception of human dignity subject to the ever-changing demands of the will of the people.

And the philosophy of history insists on a conception of history as a whole.

It is based on a conception of language and meaning.

Any emancipatory politics—as well as any critique of capitalism requires a conception of freedom.

This paper argues that this problem requires a new conception of policymaking: a conception that recognizes the analytical primacy of achieving coordination under uncertainty.

A declaration of independence – a conception, really, rather than an actual birth.