Sentence examples for the familiar conception from inspiring English sources

"Flatland" challenged the familiar conception of three dimensions; "Flatterland" challenges the familiar conception of dimension itself.

Recall the familiar conception of free will with which we began.

If the account satisfactorily realizes this familiar conception, then it may be credibly claimed that the difference in question between worlds is a matter of Leo's exercising his free will differently.

An agent-causal account may be said to nicely realize this familiar conception of free will.

The most familiar conception of "authenticity" comes to us mainly from Heidegger's Being and Time of 1927.

So runs a familiar conception of free will.

(Recently, Richard Holton has pointed out that there is a familiar conception of weakness of will according to which it is not a failure to conform to one's contemporaneous all-things-considered evaluative judgment but a failure to follow through on an earlier resolution. (See Holton 1999)) 14.

Alexithymia has been a familiar conception of psychosomatic phenomenon.

Alexithymia has been a familiar conception as "no words for feeling" in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine since it was first termed by Sifneos [ 1].

However plausible or implausible, the focus on practical rationality is unlikely to diffuse the empirical issues, since there is more empirical work suggesting difficulty with familiar conceptions of reason than there is making trouble for familiar notions of character.

The familiar and the academic conceptions have in common an opposition to invoking the authority of precedents or of abstract and ultimate principles.