What is "conceptions"

Usage examples of "conceptions".

We have seen overall development move from physiocentric to biocentric to egocentric to ethnocentric to worldcentricand it is with rationality that the various worldcentric conceptions first begin to emerge.

For this method of forming conceptions is the only one which nominalism can accept with a good conscience.

Here we find the intellectual equipment necessary for conceptions of relativitythat time taken or space travelled cannot be absolute, but must be measured relative to some arbitrary point.

The conception of a common territory, appropriated or protected by common efforts, was elaborated, and it took the place of the vanishing conceptions of common descent.

In their conceptions of justice the barbarians evidently did not much differ from the savages.

The conceptions of a wider union, extended to whole stems and to several stems of various origin, were slowly elaborated.

The old conceptions of justice which were conceptions of mere revenge, slowly underwent a deep modification--the idea of amends for the wrong done taking the place of revenge.

Jurisprudenz, gives a series of facts illustrating the conceptions of equity inrooted among the African barbarians.

In reality, a complete change had to be accomplished in the current conceptions, under the double influence of the Church and the students of Roman law, before an idea of sanctity began to be attached to the personality of the king.

These two laws, however, ran so much against the conceptions of the peasants that they were not obeyed, and wherever the peasants had retaken possession of part of their lands they kept them undivided.

However, the village-community institutions so well respond to the needs and conceptions of the tillers of the soil that, in spite of all, Europe is up to this date covered with living survivals of the village communities, and European country life is permeated with customs and habits dating from the community period.

That mutual aid is the real foundation of our ethical conceptions seems evident enough.

For it is in duration that we are free, not in spatialised time, as all determinist conceptions suppose in contradiction.

New conceptions and methods of execution now become possible, and many were the principles and schools resulting therefrom.