As a whole, the project was conceived as having five phases: outline, diagnosis, modelling the process, scalability, instrumentation.
For the logical atomists, language was conceived as having a certain necessary and fairly simple underlying structure, which was expressible in terms of symbolic logic.
In classical physics, space is conceived as having the absolute character of an empty stage in which events in nature unfold as time flows onward independently; events occurring simultaneously for one observer are presumed to be simultaneous for any other; mass is taken as impossible to create or destroy; and a particle given sufficient energy acquires a velocity that can increase without limit.
Tye's suggestion is that veridical perceptions and hallucinations have contents with a common structure, and this structure may be conceived as having a slot in it for an object.
Classical thinkers could disagree about the actual ontological status of ideas (their formal reality); but they all had to agree that as representations (epistemically, if not ontologically) they were "non-physical" and "non-historical"; that is, precisely as representing their objects, they could not be conceived as having any role in the causal networks of the natural or the human worlds.
The event is conceived as having a true additive effect on the underlying scale.
The second factor is interspecies contact, which can be conceived as having 2 dimensions: the duration of contact and the intensity of contact.
Because the arches were conceived as rooms, and had seats, out of the sun, "where weariness may be lounged off," as The New York Times put it in 1869.
Climates, landforms, soils, and plant and animal ecology were conceived as being interrelated, with each having an impact on the other.
And while these products were conceived as smoking alternatives, the Food and Drug Administration has not yet formally approved them as smoking cessation aids, and research is mixed about their effectiveness.
