As Hume argued, there is no reason for thinking that the Causal Principle is true a priori, for we can conceive of effects without conceiving of their being caused and what is conceivable is possible in reality (1993, IV).
By Nathan Heller In relation to animals, we can conceive of ourselves as peers or protectors.
As the government's Central Science Laboratory said at the time: "We can conceive of nowhere more problematic".
Second, any containment regime we can conceive in place of war will eventually unravel, because the outside world does not have the resolve to maintain it and because a dictator with oil has the market on his side.
For as long as we can conceive of new freedoms, new ethics of care and responsibility, and new ways of imagining worlds that confront the wrongs of our democratic tradition, we should vote.
If we can conceive of an affordable steakhouse on the same block as the Metro Line cab stand and the Brooklyn home of the Knitting Factory, then surely such a thing must exist.
Salter balances Langewiesche's claim that the aircraft, an Airbus A320, was the day's true hero, with his own strong praise for Sullenberger and his crew, observing that "no autopilot or computer we can conceive of could have handled the emergency half as well".
Reid believes that we can conceive of non-existent objects.
We can conceive of this set as determining a certain "conceptual role" for each concept.
However, it seems that we can only signify by our words whatever we can conceive.
Yet this view seems perfectly compatible with the idea that we can conceive of empty space.
