Literary notes about Conception (AI summary)
In literature, "conception" functions as a multifaceted term that embodies both abstract ideas and concrete interpretations. It is deployed as a means to articulate underlying principles—ranging from philosophical formulations like the apriority of ethics ([1]) to nuanced psychological or physiological distinctions in understanding human thought ([2], [3]). Authors extend its use to describe religious, social, and even aesthetic constructs, whether by conferring spiritual comfort ([4]), elucidating the evolution of legal and political ideas ([5], [6]), or framing artistic renditions of scientific or mythological phenomena ([7], [8]). Moreover, the term often serves as a bridge between subjective intuition and universal form, enabling discussions that span from the immaterial theories of Kant and Plato ([9], [10]) to reflections on human creativity and originality in literature ([11]).
- [Pg 48] which are here classed together under the conception of apriority !
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer - The phrenological contrasted with the physiological conception, 27 .
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - Attention, perception, conception, volition, are its ample equivalents.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - Far be it from me to deny the majesty of this conception, or its capacity to yield religious comfort to a most respectable class of minds.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James - What is man’s responsibility to society, the conception of which results from the conception of freedom?
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - The notion of a legislature to make new laws is an entirely modern conception of Parliament.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - Artist’s conception of Viking Mars lander as it heads for touch down.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution - For his original conception of matter as something which has no qualities is really a negation.
— from Timaeus by Plato - It follows that the conception of the ens realissimum is the only conception by and in which we can cogitate a necessary being.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - And do you also agree, I said, in describing the dialectician as one who attains a conception of the essence of each thing?
— from The Republic by Plato - Conception is a blessing, but not as your daughter may conceive.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare