In the supplementary document on Ancient Conceptions of Analysis, three particular sources of conceptions of analysis were identified ancient Greek geometry, Plato's dialogues and Aristotle's Analytics.
Ancient Greek geometry was not the only source of later conceptions of analysis, however.
The obvious sources include sources such as the American founding documents, popular intellectuals, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, and his colleagues and acquaintances in the American Abolition movement, and the allies he encountered abroad; a particular source of his conception of natural law theory was George Combe's The Constitution of Man, from 1834 (Van Wyhe and Combe 2004).
Heimans said then he could not have imagined a more fitting home for the portrait than Westminster Abbey, "the beauty of which was a great source of inspiration in the conception of the work.
Analysis of multiple data sources revealed that conceptions of identity, beliefs of the nature of the virtual world, and technical skill were primary factors which affected group cohesion and learning within the community.
"It's a source of validation for their self-conception," said Susan Krauss Whitbourne, a psychology professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who has written extensively about the mental states of sports fans.
Hausman also briefly considers transgender politics as a possible source of resistance to the medical conception of transsexuality.
The second significant source of concern about Lewis's conception of fundamental ontology is the role or rather lack thereof that modal notions have in it.
In the 18th century, no less than today, to affirm the rational will of the people as the source of sovereign power was to reject conceptions of politics premised on either the mutual exclusion of society and will (a politics determined by natural, historical or economic "necessity") or on the primacy of another sort of will (the will of a monarch, a priest, an elite).
Still, its main source of inspiration was a von Humboldtian conception of bildung, stressing the generic abilities, personal growth and cultural continuities that schools' fostering activities should aim for (SOU, 1992 94, p. 57).
