Sentence examples for without any concept from inspiring English sources

I'm watching the numbers on the pump, and the next thing I know, I'm falling to the ground, without any concept of why – the eeriest, worst thing, such a gross feeling.

Grey is perfect as a naive but likable teenager, determined to help the poor and downtrodden, and without any concept of what life is like for anyone who is not Jewish and middle class (another probable reason I relate to this film so much).

I was a teenager when the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal broke in 1998, and I remember even then – even without any concept of slut-shaming, any feminist counternarrative to guide me – having no understanding whatsoever of what this woman supposedly did wrong.

The northern Vietnamese, who had originally been organized in self-contained kingdoms without any concept of royal divinity, owing an intermittent administrative allegiance only to the distant Chinese emperor, found this ultimately suitable as a state religion after the final eclipse of Confucianism in the 17th century.

W. Thomas Porter: We set out on this project without any concept of limitations.

I'm just against people throwing festivals without any concept or any production or any real value.

This has been proposed without consultation, without bargaining, without even any concept of shared sacrifice.

Though Bøhn does accept that thesis (Bøhn 2013), he argues that this Trinity theory relies only on our having "a primitive notion of plural identity" (371), that is, a concept we understand without reference to any concept from mereological (parts and wholes) theory.

One thesis that might be held about nonconceptual content is that a thinker can represent the world nonconceptually without possessing any concepts at all.

Imagination in the free play, he says, conforms to the general conditions for the application of concepts to objects that are presented to our senses, yet without any particular concept being applied, so that imagination conforms to the conditions of understanding without the constraint of particular concepts.

Our waitress plonked an unasked-for jug of iced water on the table before we'd even sat down, then, without pausing to explain any "concept" (praise be!), asked what we fancied to drink.