Conceptions

Examples

• 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.
• The Greeks had noble conceptions of womanhood in the goddesses Athene and Artemis, and in the heroines Antigone and Andromache. Plato. The Republic.
• By the grandeur of his conceptions, the graceful daring of his actions, by his wit and beauty, he won and ruled the minds of all. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• His conceptions were so bright and perfect, that he did not choose to involve them in a cloud of expressions. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The facts of interest show that these conceptions are mythical. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The ideas of humor among the green men of Mars are widely at variance with our conceptions of incitants to merriment. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Yet it is a bit of evidence showing that Germany came next to England in the earlier ideas, conceptions of, and struggles after a sewing machine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is the folly of the simple disciple which demands miraculous frippery on the majesty of truth and immaculate conceptions for righteousness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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