Science furthers this biological process by bringing our primitive conceptions into contact with new environments, thus causing mental adaptation.
However, the epistemological aspect of doctrines of the transcendentals, i.e. their status as the first, primitive conceptions of the intellect, implicitly compromises the real character of the transcendental properties of being, given that what can be conceived exceeds the realm of what is real.
We might say that the Mohists are applying a very basic, primitive conception of correctness, of which truth, obligation, permissibility, and other notions are species.
The Bharhut style, though at times archaic and primitive in its conception, marks the beginnings of a tradition of Buddhist narrative relief and decoration of sacred buildings that continued for several centuries.
Teller (1995) discusses a specific conception of individuality, primitive thisness, as well as other possible features of the particle concept in comparison to classical concepts of fields and waves, as well as in comparison to the concept of field quanta, which is the basis for the interpretation that Teller advocates.
In his private papers, after rejecting European conceptions of democracy as primitive, and corrupted by class conflict, he defined modern democracy "most briefly" as "government by popular opinion".
An ethical bedrock of the British agency's operations is Parliament's decision to permit research on human embryos until the appearance of the "primitive streak" some 14 days after conception.
He compares their potential impact to the development of New York's Times Square in parallel with the early urban films of Thomas Edison: their primitive tracking shots fostered a new conception of the "moving" city that also found expression in the square's illuminated advertising, known as "sky signs".
Bradley's conception of facts as primitive qualified existents seems to be also one main source of the view here described as the view that facts are exemplifications of properties.
Like the blind-beggar-for-luck, "Kane" has a primitive appeal that is implicit in the conception.
Also, the naïve conception of relations as metaphysically primitive gives rise to numerous problems of infinite regress (cf. Robins, 1900, pp. 88 89).
