Sentence examples for speculative conception from inspiring English sources

This gives a coherent, though speculative, conception of material substance.

Despite all the efforts of speculative theology, a graphic conception of the person of the Holy Spirit was not developed even later in the consciousness of the church.

The corpuscular conception of light was always a speculative theory on the periphery of his optics, however.

Against this Brahmanic sacerdotalism and its caste organization, the reaction noted in the Upanishads (speculative texts), about 1000 500 bce, introduced a mystical conception of the priesthood in Hinduism and subsequently in Buddhism.

Giordano Bruno speaks of the "giudiciosissimo Telesio" in the third dialog of De la causa, whilst Francis Bacon based his own speculative philosophy of nature on a blend of Telesian and Paracelsian conceptions (Giachetti Assenza 1980; Rees 1977 19844).

In Intention, she criticised the way philosophers since Descartes have had a conception of knowledge, even knowledge of one's own actions, as "incorrigibly contemplative", passive, speculative.

Vitrier pointed Erasmus toward a new conception of theology, no longer as a systematically demonstrated set of answers to broad speculative issues discussed by specialists in the shop-talk of the university faculty but as a practical guide to the religious life of devout Christians, founded on the Bible and the Church Fathers.

Her conception.

"It's purely speculative".

It's rather speculative.

These investments are partly speculative.