Sentence examples for of our conceptions from inspiring English sources

Pragmatists suggest an understanding of the "vague" nature of our social world, which involves the continual reconstructing of our conceptions as our social and intellectual environment changes.

Indeed, theoretical entities in modern science can be hard to represent to ourselves because of the limitations of our conceptions to perceptible forms and properties (PD 166).

And we constantly return to what we seek to understand to assess the adequacy of our conceptions and to correct any mistakes or misinterpretations in our interpretations.

One could adopt an instrumentalist attitude toward the theoretical entities posited by science, whilst continuing to believe that whatever entities the world actually does contain exist independently of our conceptions and perceptions of them.

At the heart of all of our conceptions of a spacetime singularity is the notion of some sort of failing: a path that disappears, points that are torn out, spacetime curvature that becomes pathological.

And since most of our conceptions are informed if not dominated by moral conceptions of the good, it is natural that this should be reflected in our judgments of personal integrity' (1987, 11).

This becomes apparent when one asks why the very same features that he is insisting are true of our conception of rationality aren't also true of the key concepts that figure in explanations of the physical world.

Then our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.

But it also captures the falseness of our conception of the "other" as we recognize ourselves in countries, hospitals, beds, and beaches far from our own small worlds.

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

Of exalted public and private virtue in his life and career, he filled up the full measure of our conception of a man".