Hume, in A Treatise of Human Nature (1739 40), rejected the reality of cause and effect as ordinarily conceived, arguing that belief in particular causal connections could not be justified rationally but could be explained psychologically as the product of mere "habit" and the "association of ideas".
Intensions are meaning, rules, properties, functions as ordinarily conceived, and propositions.
The philosopher for whom reality consists, first and foremost, of physical objects as ordinarily conceived, may have serious doubts.
On the far side we find implicatures, that contribute not only what is suggested, conveyed, and the like, but even what is said, as ordinarily conceived.
Since Zeno's arguments in fact tend to problematize the application of quantitative conceptions to physical bodies and to spatial expanses as ordinarily conceived, the paradoxes may have originated in reflection upon Pythagorean efforts to apply mathematical notions to the natural world.
Unlike the eliminative materialist who regards conventional, folk-psychological discourse about persons as unsupported by, say, neuroscientific data (and thus is willing to dispense with a theory of persons altogether), the Buddhist reductionist merely points to the conventional nature of persons as ordinarily conceived.
For example, we might ordinarily conceive of the artist as a pre-given entity who views, is inspired by, and utilizes pre-given things in the world around her as she then goes about making her work.
Kant might argue, against a Hume or a Nietzsche, that seeing pleasure in beauty as springing from what varies between people, not only places people at the mercy of their good or bad aesthetic 'upbringing', but also makes untenable the normative claims to correctness or universal validity that are part of judgements of beauty, as we ordinarily conceive of them.
Special care had been taken with the operation, he stated, since it had been conceived by the battalion command, a higher echelon than the company command, to which Reilly was ordinarily responsible.
Whatever its form, it is distinguishable from the shaping spirit of imagination, which ordinarily embodies itself in children's games and rhymes, the fairy tale, the fantasy, animal stories such as Kipling's Jungle Books, nonsense, nonmoral poetry, humour, or the realistic novel conceived as art rather than admonition.
