Sentence examples for under a conception from inspiring English sources

That second case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, was in some ways the easier of the two, at least under a conception of the First Amendment that is particularly skeptical of government censorship of political speech.

To be morally justifiable under a conception of deliberative democracy, a truth commission needs to economize on disagreement.

Etchemendy's claim is perhaps defensible under a conception of logical truth as analyticity simpliciter, but certainly doubtful on more traditional conceptions of logical truth, on which the predicate "is a logical truth" is not even a logical expression.

These are: (1) Does the theory under consideration rigorously define a conception of human well-being and, if so, what is it?

Wit, Schopenhauer says, "consists entirely in a facility for finding for every object that appears a conception under which it certainly can be thought, though it is very different from all the other objects which come under this conception" (Supplement to Book I, Ch. 8).

But this move is not available under a liberalized conception of implicit definition.

The second element of a scientific discovery consists in binding together—"colligating", as Whewell called it a set of facts by bringing them under a general conception.

Compared to the Aristotelian conception, Malebranche's conception of causation is remarkably simple and unified, and does not face the question of how such diverse and distinct types of Aristotelian causes can come under a single conception of causation.

Teleological theories draw from the efforts of the individual agent to distinguish the real from the apparent good, and to harmonize conflicting impulses by subsuming them under a comprehensive conception of the good.

Most of us labor under a particular conception of what it is be free as being centered on the autonomous self, doing what it pleases without the restraint of priest or monarch.

Is Saudi Arabia's air campaign against Yemeni cities? 1. Identify and specify various categories of violent behavior that fall broadly under a loose conception of "terror" - assigning certain traits to each.