Sentence examples for what we conceive from inspiring English sources
We have nearly reached limits of what we conceive is possible of a three-by-five-inch rectangle today.
We are beginning to understand that what we conceive of as "time" might one day disappear from our universe, giving us no sense of movement or direction.
"We must do what we conceive to be right and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we'll be successful," wrote EF Schumacher, the great environmental economist.
However, as Pitcher (1977, 113) nicely observes, such an argument seems to conflate the representation (what we conceive with) and the represented (what we conceive of the content of our thought).
So, how can we know that what we conceive as weak signals and early warnings really are significant, and will persist?
Once we make this distinction, we realize that although we must have some conception or representation in order to conceive of something, and that representation is in some sense thought of, it does not follow (contra Berkeley) that what we conceive of must be a thought-of object.
It was as if her body, undirected by what we typically conceive of as consciousness, were still intent on survival.
What we traditionally conceive of as "the public" is in retreat: public services are at the mercy of austerity policies, public housing is being sold off and public space is increasingly no such thing.
All of this raises tricky economic and ethical questions about how a society survives and prospers when so many of its citizens are beyond what we currently conceive as working-age, and live longer in the twilight, when disease ravages the mind and body, and people are more likely to be dependent than independent.
What we can conceive of is a situation in which objects move in ways that appear to violate the law.
For Mulla Sadra, the second point is easier to treat: essences are not fundamental to which existence is accidental so the boundaries of what we may conceive an essence to be should not limit existence.
