His own record, moreover, reveals that he rejects a zero-sum conception of international affairs.
In contrast, the Riemann sum-based "adding up pieces" conception of the definite integral (renamed in this paper as the "multiplicatively-based summation" conception) is helpful and useful in making sense of a variety of applied integral expressions and equations.
In sum, Pufendorf's conceptions of morality, politics, and international law are set against analogous natural states at each level; this facilitates the respective analyses, though the remaining differences also prevent their standardization.
Potter has summed the record's conception by concluding, "I think in the three years to build up to the album, we never actually thought of a track list, and we never really kind of considered the fact that it should sound like an album.
Given the reliability information in this study, our analyses used the sum of the key concept scores across the four items but analyzed the four alternative conception scores individually.
To sum up, both the hylozoistic conceptions of matter and Leibniz's ideas about the nature of monad were a reaction against a mechanistic image of the world that was established in the middle of the 17th century, above all through the works of Hobbes and Descartes.
Rodriguez-Pereyra 2004 proposes an alternative modal realist conception of possible worlds as sums or collections of, among other things, pure sets.
Neoclassical economics is after all built on a conception of the economy as the sum of the atomised actions of millions of utility-maximising individuals, where markets are stable, information is perfect, capital and labour are equals – and the trade cycle is bolted on as an afterthought.
The mistake is accepting the line, and its dismal conception of life as a zero-sum proposition.
There's real shock value in hearing about (what we must presume to be) this narrator's own conception, described with hilarious ribaldry, and summed up in one curt opening sentence: "It was finished almost as soon as it began".
Using the example "7 + 8 = 15," Whewell claimed that "we refer to our conceptions of seven, of eight, and of addition, and as soon as we possess the conceptions distinctly, we see that the sum must be 15".
