Sentence examples for to form a conception of from inspiring English sources

Being able to form a conception of the good and to engage in critical reflection…   7.

The final step is to form a conception of that "true nature" independently of any perspective.

The goddess leads Parmenides to form a conception of what whatever must be has to be like just in virtue of its modality.

The experience of a sensation orients my cognition so as to form a conception of a quality of a mind-independent object.

Moreover, if Reid is correct and it is the province of reason to form a conception of one's good on the whole, then Hume's more extravagant claims about reason also cannot be correct.

But they deliberate and choose with others about a public agenda, and in so doing they cultivate abilities to form a conception of a common good, to take principled stands, to exchange reasons with others, and to learn from others.

Reid, by contrast, takes it to be evident that we can form a conception of our good on the whole and regulate our actions in accordance with it.

One educated in our privileged land can scarcely form a conception of the ignorance, wretchedness and degraded servitude of the Pawnee females.

In this way the past and the present are blended; ideas are thereby generated, forming a conception of the present.

The Indians of the Gaspe peninsula, wrote Chretien Le Clerq, had never formed a conception of any divinity but were charitable beyond anything in Europe, while the Jesuit Le Jeune found the natives of Cap Breton "exceptionally clever, honest and decent, very generous with a cheerful disposition", but also godless.

Although he only gives a negative characterization of primary substances in the Categories — they are neither said-of nor present-in — the examples of them that he provides allow us to form a more robust conception of what a primary substance is supposed to be.