Sentence examples for practical conception from inspiring English sources

Early Chinese philosophers' practical conception of language is especially obvious in the Confucian doctrine of the rectification of names.

Also, the widening of the practical conception of a "neighbour" gives an extra spur to the explicit development of the eternal consciousness in that it leads to the extension to everyone of the same right to freedom.

Political Liberalism shifts the focus from a philosophical conception of justice, formulated abstractly and meant to apply universally, to a practical conception of legitimacy where consensus is reached without pretension of deep metaphysical roots for the principles in question.

The problem for the practical conception of critical social inquiry is then to escape the horns of a dilemma: it should be neither purely epistemic and thus overly cognitivist, nor purely moralistic.

Major technical advances may, of course, require many years between the original discovery or conception and the time when a practical design becomes feasible.

One candidate is practical utility: which conception of happiness best answers to our interests in the notion?

A good test case for the practical and pluralist conception of Critical Theory based on perspective taking would be to give a more precise account of the role of general theories and social scientific methods in social criticism, including moral theories or theories of norms.

In light of such considerations, many philosophers have argued that Hume doesn't endorse an instrumentalist conception of practical reason, but instead, more radically, is a skeptic about all of practical reason.

Research suggests that instructional behaviors are tied with at least one component of practical theories, the instructors' conceptions of teaching, and that these conceptions constitute important barriers to instructional changes (Dancy and Henderson 2007; Hora 2012b; Kember and Kwan 2000; Murray and Macdonald 1997; Schuster and Finkelstein 2006; Trigwell and Prosser 1996a, 1996b).

As a practical matter, Madison's conception of the House is now obsolete.

"Our conception of practical politics is that if you have a sound enough case to convince the folks back home, you don't have to buttonhole the Senator," Baxter explained.