This methodology, guided by its rich ideal of empirical success, supports a conception of scientific progress that does not require construing it as progress toward Laplace's ideal limit of a final theory of everything, and is not threatened by the classic argument against convergent realism.
Hook supported a conception of American democracy as a society that had been built upon individual rights and equality before the law, where greater equality was to be realized by virtue of the fact that the United States was a society of multiple opportunities with differing patterns for upward mobility.
Theatre music is all music composed to govern, enhance, or support a theatrical conception.
Ideas for digital mementos formed the output of this research and expressed the designer's and researcher's understanding of participants' practices and needs, and the human values that underlie them and, in doing so, suggest devices and systems that go beyond usability to support a broader conception of human activity.
Matthews (2008, 2009), argues that a Piagetian-type stage theory of development tends to support a "deficit conception" of childhood, according to which the nature of the child is understood primarily as a configuration of deficits missing capacities that normal adults have but children lack.
In Rawlsian terms, each citizen supports a political conception of justice for reasons internal to her own comprehensive doctrine.
Toon, presumably, supports a broader conception of the role of fictions in science, then, according to which they do not play a particularly prominent or heightened role in computer simulation.
This treatise, unlike the Book of Definitions and Book of Substances is a distinctly Jewish work of philosophy, as it combines doctrines of soul drawn from Ibn Hasday's Neoplatonist with Jewish scriptural proof texts, supporting a Neoplatonist conception of soul as distinct from mortal spirit, combined with the Rabbinic Jewish belief in reward and punishment of souls.
Recent observations in mice exposed to seminal fluid in the absence of conception support a role for seminal fluid in driving Treg cell activation and proliferation, resulting in which promotes tolerance of paternal alloantigens at the time of embryo implantation (Robertson et al., 2009).
