Best known for Boyle's law, which established a constant relationship between air's volume and its pressure, Boyle was a moralist from a privileged upbringing whose conception of science — both of its empirical basis and of its transformative potential for mankind — was far ahead of its time.
Martin (2001) proposes that different universes of sets be amalgamated to yield a single maximal universe, which will be privileged by fitting our conception of set better than any other universe of sets.
First, 19th-century electrodynamics raised again the question of a privileged frame of reference: the conception of light as an electromagnetic wave in the ether implied that the rest-frame of the ether itself should play a distinguished role in electrodynamical phenomena.
The Left's conception of "privilege" is categorical -- one enjoys "privilege" if one is a member of a privileged class, regardless of one's personal circumstances -- but the facts of life are personal and particular.
This was just about the time that I joined ISAAA, so I have been privileged to be part of KC s conception and growth.
So, even as knowledge of humanity supplants knowledge of God as the keystone of the system of knowledge, the scientific perspective on humanity starkly challenges humankind's self-conception as occupying a privileged position in the order of nature.
Both the propagation and dismissal of antisemitism stems from the same conception of the Jew as privileged and powerful.
Stirner maintains that accepted meanings and traditional standards of argumentation are underpinned by a conception of truth as a privileged realm beyond individual control.
It's almost impossible to express how privileged I've felt to watch the process of conception to birth, as genetic mechanisms dynamically instruct each fetal cell of where to go and what to become.
