Sentence examples for without a conception from inspiring English sources

Without mental time travel, without a conception of the past, we remain, like Wearing, prisoners.

On this view, children start with a very different conception of the world than adults have—in fact, Piaget thought that they start without a conception of an external world at all and they go through a series of identifiable stages that culminate in adult understanding.

Without such a conception of the good, we now face all manner of moral, religious, and political problems that we lack the conceptual resources to resolve or even properly understand.

But the forces of settlement cannot organize for endless occupation without also advancing a conception of the Jewish state that blows back onto civil life.

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

Anarres has become a place without authoritarian institutions or a conception of private property, while Urras has many states and ideologies, broadly reflecting the various alignments of the cold war period in which the book was written.

To his mind, this is what makes his solution closer in spirit to Giles of Rome than to either Godfrey or Henry, without committing him to a conception of the distinction as rigid as that of Giles.

He described the Starr house as confused, without a clear conception.

The second question of the questionnaire ("Is this feature useful for something?") was included in order to distinguish between: a) those children who gave teleological explanations because they had in mind a particular use of the features under question and b) those who did so without a clear conception of what the particular features were for.

Without a clear conception of inherent quality, the only certainty about art becomes the amount of money paid for it.

Instead, each party in the original position is motivated to do as well as he/she can in absolute terms in promoting the optimal achievement of the many purposes that make up a conception of the good, without regard to how much or how little others may have.