Sentence examples for without a concept from inspiring English sources

He thus allows for no conception of perfection without a concept of purpose.

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Without a concept of validation, he argues, no interpretation would be more plausible than any other.

But one might also argue, more fundamentally, that without a concept of noninferential justification, one faces a vicious conceptual regress.

In Herder's view, however, " [t]hat something could please without a concept, and indeed please universally, is contrary to nature and experience" (Kalligone, p. 675).

There are no non-conceptual perceptions, because ordinary objects are not given to us without a concept (vikalpa) or some mode of presentation; verbalization makes the concept explicit.

First, there is the paradox of being airborne without power, a concept even more baffling than a 747 staying in the air.

Without such a concept, talk of "compunction" is out of place.

And that in turn suggests that one can represent an object or property in experience without forming a concept of it contra experiential conceptualism.

Austin also wanted to include within "the province of jurisprudence" certain "exceptions," items which did not fit his criteria but which should nonetheless be studied with other "laws properly so called": repealing laws, declarative laws, and "imperfect laws"—laws prescribing action but without sanctions (a concept Austin ascribes to "Roman [law] jurists") (Austin 1832: Lecture I, p. 36).

Fully coupled simulations of turbulent channel flow and temporally developed mixing layers suggest that explicit accounting of the small-scale velocity in the large-scale equations allows to correctly predict the large-scale turbulent dynamics without using a concept of eddy-viscosity.