Conception

Examples

• I join to it the conception of a particular government, and religion, and manners. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He has a clearer conception of the divisions of science and of their relation to the mind of man than was possible to the ancients. Plato. The Republic.
• Our enemies were a good half-hour behind us with no conception of our direction. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• There is a conception of education which professes to be based upon the idea of development. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• For our political language was made to express a routine conception of government. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Some conception of the enormous scale upon which grain is raised in the Western States may be gotten from the dimensions of the farms. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• If the Aristotelian conception represented just Aristotle's personal view, it would be a more or less interesting historical curiosity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In this case there is a feeling distinct and separate from the conception. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The conception always precedes the understanding; and where the one is obscure, the other is uncertain; where the one fails, the other must fail also. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This gives a much increased field, and also an increased stereoscopic effect, or conception of relative distance, by having the object glasses wider apart than the eyes of the observer. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Surely our delightful Raffaello's conception is infinitely preferable? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• What a sublime conception is that of a last judgment! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Dorothea was altogether captivated by the wide embrace of this conception. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The scorn of the public should be turned upon the emptiness of political thought, upon the fact that those men seem without even a conception of the nation's needs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Nietzsche repudiates the usual conception of morality, which he calls slave-morality, in favor of a morality of masters. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• From whence does this proceed, but that the memory in the first case assists the fancy and gives an additional force and vigour to its conceptions? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The novel feature of Plato's pedagogy was the plan to educate the directing classes, men disciplined in his own philosophical and ethical conceptions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The history so far as conscious statement is concerned takes us back to the conceptions of experience and of reason formulated by Plato and Aristotle. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Conceptions and propositions mutually imply and support one another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He can sometimes raise capital to help him in working out his crude conceptions, but even then it is frequently done at a distressful cost of personal surrender. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And just here the true conceptions of interest and discipline are full of significance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I will endeavour to explain my conceptions of this matter by figures, representing a plan and an elevation of a spout or whirlwind. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Moreover, from the Babylonians we derive some of our most sublime religious and scientific conceptions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• There are various systems of philosophy with characteristically different conceptions of the method of knowing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• How could they have a place in the shadowy conceptions of a gentle mind? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• His religious and ethical conceptions were closely associated with--indeed, dependent upon--an orderly and infinite physical univer se. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• They perturb and dull conceptions instead of raising them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We even plume ourselves upon our firmness in clinging to our conceptions in spite of the way in which they work out. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The net results of all the revisions amounted, however, to a revolution of prior conceptions of the world. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But these general conceptions were no longer taken to give knowledge in themselves. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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