Sentence examples for peculiar conception from inspiring English sources

For one thing, some of Hume's criticisms rested upon his own peculiar conception of causation a conception nearly universally recognized as seriously inadequate.

Even if we assume that Amy's life would be worth living, creating her would be a benefit only on a rather peculiar conception of what a "benefit" entails.

But as a science of facts and of realities, this psychology falls under the reduction and does not seem to contribute significantly to the version of transcendental phenomenology put forth in Ideas I. Stumpf concludes that this version of phenomenology is a phenomenology without phenomena due both to Husserl's account of phenomena and to his peculiar conception of (transcendental) phenomenology.

The peculiar thing about donor conception is that on the one hand it privileges genetics: the fertile partner gets to be a real, biological parent.

But the character's famous hesitation his reluctance or unreadiness to avenge his father's murder is central and peculiar to Shakespeare's conception of Hamlet.

Peculiar in construction, audacious in conception, the book was not autobiography and it was not a chemistry treatise either.

Although one never really knows about an actor, one still knows a lot, even too much — and this plethora of knowledge has had a peculiar effect on the reception, and the conception, of movies.

"Road to Perdition" is based on a 1998 black-and-white graphic novel by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner (who did the art), and maybe the bluff crudity of the original conception accounts for what's so peculiar and stunted in the movie.

It was about five years from conception to release, and it was all wonderfully peculiar".

But, as Armstrong acknowledges, the modern conception of religion is different, and she never fully confronts the peculiar power of religious enticements among those who would do violence today.

The conception of egoism with which Feuerbach is working here, however, is peculiar.