5 sentences with 'conception'
Example sentences and phrases with the word conception and other words derived from it.
• « Later, central to Sigmund Freud's conception was the theory of neurosis; he agreed with Nietzsche, for whom neurosis was "the modern disease" par excellence; »
• « Even the Aristotelian idea of the plenum - his conception of a universe where emptiness was impossible - lasted for more than eighteen centuries. This hypothesis, known as the horror of emptiness, served more than fifty generations of humans to explain why the water in a small-spouted bottle did not fall out when the bottle was inverted. The unanimous answer was: because nature has a horror of vacuum. »
• « Over the centuries, the political conception of the American dominions changed. In the early days, the Hispanic monarchy regarded the new lands as Kingdoms of the Indies, that is, as direct dependencies of the sovereign, distinct from Spain and on an equal footing with it. »
• « The conception of the state as a social formation and a political-legal organisation of the national community was adopted in the 18th century, after the formation of nations. Its power and activity are regulated by law, as an expression of the general will as established by the representatives of the people. »
• « The meaning and reason for the unity and cohesion of a society thus changes perspective: it is no longer based on a single conception of truth - since it assumes a plurality of competing conceptions - but on the public acceptance of a conception of law and justice that establishes the framework within which the various conceptions of truth can be debated and which in turn limits the conceptions that are permissible. »