Sentence examples for particular conception from inspiring English sources

Surely our concepts of physical reality outstrip any particular conception we have at any given time, and the possibility of mistaken application is built into them.

Nor do we know our particular conception of the good.

Radical factions and parties battling for supremacy each have at their heart a particular conception of the "good life".

It was, Ferguson contends, because the English settlers brought with them a particular conception of widely distributed property rights and democracy, inherited from John Locke.

Thubron's great triumph in that novel was to engineer a particular impression in the reader's mind (a particular conception of reality) and then disturb it actively.

In the last decade a number of national and international activities and public policies in the US have converged to prescribe a particular conception of educational research.

Hollywood spent the 80s churning out action films like Rambo and The Terminator, which supported the hawkish aspects of Reaganism and promoted a particular conception of masculinity that still resonates in the blockbusters we see today.

Both contemporary and historical philosophers of education have devoted themselves, at least in part, to defending a particular conception of the aims of education or to criticizing the conceptions of others.

At this critical juncture in Judaism, Christianity, with its own particular conception of priesthood and sacrificial redemption, began in Palestine and rapidly spread throughout the surrounding regions in the Greco-Roman world.

Priorities in law enforcement and particular conceptions of controversial legal issues — affirmative action, severity and leniency in criminal prosecution and sentencing, antitrust policies, civil rights enforcement — have always been part of a president's project for the nation.

The objective of the course is to consider particular conceptions of what it means to be human and to consider the place of such conceptions in the development of critical thought.