We likewise worry that, by wrapping together function and evolutionary history, the ultimate causation conception leads researchers to think about evolutionary causality in linear terms, and to neglect alternative explanations for the appearance of design.
Common to many of them is a positive conception of ultimate truth which ascribes specific qualities to it and gets close to the theory of Buddha-nature (tathāgatagarbha) that became very important in the later development of Buddhist thought.
Simon still knew that a thinking machine was the ultimate challenge to the conception of the human his colleagues in human sciences departments –– and most of us outside of them –– relied on.
We don't need one, and it's just a mistake to think that we need a single conception of the ultimate good in order to progress in politics.
Both of these conceptions of political justice are mistaken in Aristotle's view, because they assume a false conception of the ultimate end of the city-state.
For one thing, the form a religious community's ultimate concern takes (and the conception of its object with which it is bound up) varies from one religious community to another.
In the via moderna conception, therefore, the ultimate significata of a term are nothing but those singular things that can be the term's supposita in various propositions, as a matter of semantics.
Therefore, it is known as the 'ultimate.'" (TriṃB, Sems tsam shi 169ab) So, as we can see the dependent and the imaginary natures together explain the Yogācāra's position on conventional reality and the perfect nature explains its conception of the ultimate reality.
Living well or happiness is our ultimate end in that a conception of happiness serves to organize our various subordinate ends, by indicating the relative importance of our ends and by indicating how they should fit together into some rational overall scheme.
He takes spirit to be the sum total of individual spirits or selves connected by the relation of love and bases this conviction on the claim that only this conception of what ultimate reality consists in allows us to overcome unavoidable contradictions connected with all other attempts to reconcile unity and diversity as the distinguishing marks of reality.
