If individual states in competitive situations are governed by a short-term conception of their interests, acute conflicts between them will occur and will show a strong tendency to escalate.
Reid replaces talk of abstract ideas with the term 'general conception.' As to the ontology of general conceptions, Reid says that human minds create them, not nature; this reconfirms Reid's nominalism about kind terms.
That surrender of self-interest to a pure transcendent principle brings a whole new meaning to the term "immaculate conception" -- one that's not gender-specific.
It's a giant step in terms of conception.
"It's a giant step in terms of conception," said Theodore Couloumbis, a vice president of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, in Athens.
No difference was detected between treatments in terms of conception rates and services per conception.
Next, these functions are identified as belonging to a cycle, comprising a sequential process in terms of conception and a simultaneous process regarding operation (Chapman, 2001; Koontz and O'Donnell, 1978; Wren, 1994).
From its conception, term information content (IC) approaches can be divided into two families: annotation and topology-based IC approaches.
Baldwin calls the limited-term, public-domain conception the Anglo-American conception and the much stricter real-property, moral-rights conception the European conception.
That view, termed the neoclassical conception of economic rationality, takes rationality to consist primarily of the maximization of subjective utility that is, the maximization of one's own personal desires.
