Conceptions

“Your inexperience of the world, Miss Tulliver, prevents you from anticipating fully the very unjust conceptions that will probably be formed concerning your conduct, —conceptions which will have a baneful effect, even in spite of known evidence to disprove them. ❋ Unknown (1917)

His conceptions of other things and other beings _are only his conceptions_. ❋ Albert Pike (1850)

For sure, we can falsify certain conceptions of the laws of physics, but we can't formally prove them (in the Popperian sense). ❋ Unknown (2010)

However, the onset of the Civil War (1946 – 49) and the return to dominance of a conservative political order, as the next chapter seeks to demonstrate, saw a dramatic discursive shift in conceptions of the 'national good'. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Passerini (1994, 1996) has written extensively on the centrality of individual subjectivity in conceptions of emancipation that emerged from the student protests of the 1960s and 1970s and that continued to shape post-1968 feminist movements. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yet for some reason, I keep hearing Christians who think the solution to our broken families and out-of-wedlock conceptions is later marriage, so people can wait until they're "ready." ❋ Unknown (2008)

The reproductive tracts of 112 female Noctillio albiventris were collected around the time of a synchronized peak in conceptions in a wild population and examined histologically. ❋ Unknown (2007)

While the definition of "good wife" changed according to the social ethos of the day, the ability to run a household has remained a central theme in American conceptions of family harmony. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Burke, after reviewing shifts from Classical to Medieval to Renaissance forms of authorship, summarizes the central plot of recent histories of authorship and argues that "... the crucial historical change in conceptions of authorship [occurred] with the romantic revolution and the eighteenth-century philosophical and aesthetic discourses upon which it drew" (xix). ❋ Unknown (1999)

Of course; he recognizes that certain conceptions are inexorably established. ❋ Unknown (1920)

January 13, 1912: – The writer of such fool conceptions is as blind as an eight-hour-old puppy to the operation of all spiritual agencies in the life of man. ❋ Unknown (1913)

She has never begrudged her best, and these men have gone forth with certain conceptions of British freedom and of British law. ❋ Unknown (1908)

-- despite the fact that I think many, many Feministing commenters are less invested in conceptions of masculinity and femininity as bullshit social roles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Although Wyclif does not name either the Dominican master or the Augustinian one, it is nevertheless clear from the context that their conceptions are the object of his criticisms ❋ Conti, Alessandro (2005)

It is only conceptions, that is, the driest of ideas, that can be communicated by means of words; and what sort of conceptions has the average man to communicate, if he does not merely tell a story or give a report, neither of which makes conversation? ❋ Unknown (2004)

The human conception of pity and morality must be entirely unknown to that Infinite God, as much unknown as the conceptions of ❋ Unknown (2003)

One of the more fantastic of his conceptions was a plan to advertise for ante-mortem obituaries of himself — in order, as he said, that he might look them over and enjoy them and make certain corrections in the matter of detail. ❋ Unknown (2003)

One of the more fantastic of his conceptions was a plan to advertise for ante-mortem obituaries of himself -- in order, as he said, that he might look them over and enjoy them and make certain corrections in the matter of detail. ❋ Albert Bigelow Paine (1899)

The human conception of pity and morality must be entirely unknown to that Infinite God, as much unknown as the conceptions of a microbe to man, or at least as little regarded. ❋ Albert Bigelow Paine (1899)