What is "conceives"

Usage examples of "conceives".

All he conceives to be wrong is that human beings are a little too inhumane, a little too fond of money, and aesthetically not quite sensitive enough.

Inspections as an element of containment have become a trap for the United States, no matter how one conceives of them or of containment.

There is no doctrine so belittling, so withering to our national life, as that which conceives our destiny to be a life of exclusion of the affairs and interests of the whole globe, hemmed in to the selfish development of our material wealth and strength, surrounded by a Chinese wall built of strata of prejudice on the outside and of ignorance on the inside.

Thus, a mistaken cognition errs only in terms of how it apprehends or conceives of its object.

These principles are patterns, or relationships, the very existence of which, as purely objective phenomena independent of the mind that observes or conceives of them, is questionable.

When he sets out to depict what he conceives as the desirable type of human being, it turns out to be simply a cultivated, humanitarian version of the upper-middle-class rentier, the sort of person who in those days used to haunt picture galleries in Italy and subscribe heavily to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

But I should tell you that not everyone conceives easily--although high school students certainly seem to, don't they?

In so far as the concept 'force' appears in scientific considerations, it plays the part of an 'auxiliary concept', and what man naively conceives as force has come to be defined as merely a 'descriptive law of behaviour'.

Beyond this, Ruskin conceives of a third, still higher stage, in which man becomes capable of raising himself through 'higher contemplation' into an artistic-ethical relation to the content of the sense-world.