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conception and truth
The truth is that our classic conception of the conduct of war has come up against a new conception.
According to Foucault, power is intimately tied with his conception of truth.
The Egyptian conception of the universe centered on Ma ' at, a word that encompasses several concepts in English, including " truth ," " justice ," and " order.
" This statement emphasizes Peirce's view that ideas of approximation, incompleteness, and partiality, what he describes elsewhere as fallibilism and " reference to the future ", are essential to a proper conception of truth.
The fundamental difference between Luther and Melanchthon lies not so much in the latter's ethical conception, as in his humanistic mode of thought which formed the basis of his theology and made him ready not only to acknowledge moral and religious truths outside of Christianity, but also to bring Christian truth into closer contact with them, and thus to mediate between Christian revelation and ancient philosophy.
So in the second stage we may ascend to the knowledge of God, per imaginem, by reason, or in imagination, by the pure understanding ( intellectus ); in the one case the triple division — memory, understanding and will ,— in the other the Christian virtues — faith, hope and charity ,— leading again to the conception of a Trinity of divine qualities — eternity, truth and goodness.
Foucault shows that what specifies this discourse from the juridical and philosophical discourse is its conception of truth: truth is no longer absolute, it is the product of " race struggle ".
The value of these works is impaired somewhat by Baur's habit of making the history of dogma conform to the formulae of Hegel's philosophy, a procedure " which only served to obscure the truth and profundity of his conception of history as a true development of the human mind " ( Pfleiderer ).
His conception of truth as a " pathless land ," with the possibility of immediate liberation, is mirrored in teachings as diverse as those of est, Bruce Lee, and the Dalai Lama.
Douglas was critical of both schools of thought, but believed that " the truth lies in appreciation of the fact that neither conception is useful without the other ".
Animated by an intense love of his conception of truth and devotion to public duty, he waged war on such ecclesiastical systems as seemed to him to favour obscurantism, and to put the claims of sect above those of human society.
His pragmatism, since a conception is general, does not equate a conception's meaning, its intellectual purport, with any definite set of actual consequences or upshots corroborating or undermining the conception or its worth, nor does it equate its meaning, much less its truth ( if it is true ), with the conceived or actual benefit or cost of the conception itself, like a meme ( or, say, propaganda ), outside the perspective of its being true in what it purports.
This leads to the charge of self-refutation: if what is to be regarded as " true " is relative to a particular social formation, then this very conception of truth must itself be only regarded as being " true " in this society.
The semantic conception of truth, which is related in different ways to both the correspondence and deflationary conceptions, is due to work published by Polish logician Alfred Tarski in the 1930s.
Tarski's semantic conception of truth plays an important role in modern logic and also in much contemporary philosophy of language.
This statement emphasizes Peirce's view that ideas of approximation, incompleteness, and partiality, what he describes elsewhere as fallibilism and " reference to the future ", are essential to a proper conception of truth.
In preparing for this task, Peirce makes use of an allegorical story, omitted here, the moral of which is that there is no use seeking a conception of truth that we cannot conceive ourselves being able to capture in a humanly conceivable concept.
This great law is embodied in the conception of truth and reality.
Recent Peirceans Cheryl Misak and Robert B. Talisse have attempted to formulate Peirce's theory of truth in a way that improves on Habermas and provides an epistemological conception of deliberative democracy.
Therefore sensation, conception, and reason, are alike disqualified for being the criterion of truth.

conception and question
`` As to the necessity '', the committee declared, `` for some form of effective control of the size of the family and the spacing of children, and consequently of control of conception, there can be no question.
This was an early conception, and in early times the order in question was simply verbal ; some letters patent of Henry III of France in 1576 state that François de Montmorency was " prisoner in our castle of the Bastille in Paris by verbal command " of the late king Charles IX.
But whether the rational soul is infused into the organism at conception, as the modern opinion holds, or some weeks subsequently, as the Scholastics suppose, is an open question with theologians.
While there was no question that life was present at conception or that it could only become a human being, the thinking was that this did not necessarily mean God had infused the rational, immortal soul into the body at conception.
The extent to which Childe's interpretation of the past fits the Marxist conception of history has however been called into question.
In all the cases which are to be found in the Vedic literature we are able to say with a fair degree of plausibility that the conception formed itself from the use of the epithet in question in the first place of some concrete god, and then, after denoting that deity in the special field of action, it was gradually made into a separate deity concerned merely with the sphere of action in question.
Brown writes that it is difficult to decide whether Paul's silence on the question of the virginal conception of Jesus is significant in any case.
So, in the case in question, ousia refers to the general conception, like goodness, godhead, or such notions, while hypostasis is observed in the special properties of fatherhood, sonship, and sanctifying power.
The first expressed Nino's conception of the good: those things, and those things only, that were valued by the individual in question.
A key question in continental philosophy is in what sense we can maintain the modern conception of identity, while realizing many of our prior assumptions about the world are incorrect.
One question Parfit raises is this: given that the course of history drastically affects what people are actually born ( since it affects which potential parents actually meet and have children ; and also, a difference in the time of conception will alter the genetic makeup of the child ), do future persons have a right to complain about our actions, since they likely wouldn't exist if things had been different?
This new conception of science in opposition to religion reformed the question of what separates the two.
Drawing on this research for support, Montinari also called into question the very conception of a Nietzschean magnum opus, given his style of writing and thinking.
The festal texts of this period focused more on the action of her conception than on the theological question of her preservation from original sin.
In recounting a purported conversation in which the rabbi Judah the Prince, who said the soul ( neshama ) comes into the body when the embryo is already formed, was convinced by Antoninus Pius that it must enter the body at conception, and considered the emperor's view to be supported by, the tractate Sanhedrin of the Talmud mentions two views on the question.
Thus the question arose whether the Electromagnetic conception of the world ( compatible with Abraham's theory ) or the Relativity Principle ( compatible with Lorentz's Theory ) was correct.
The Hebrew can even be interpreted to say that the conception in question had already taken place when Isaiah was writing.
With the development of the sport, the phenomenon of professionalism began to bring into question the fundamentals of the conception of the Olympic Games as P. de Coubertin wanted them to be.

conception and varies
The exact definition of taxonomy varies slightly from source to source, but the core of the discipline remains: the conception, naming, and classification of organism groups.
The cycle, which varies somewhat from community to community, tells the story of Nanabozho's conception, birth, and his ensuing adventures, which involve interactions with spirit and animal beings, the creation of the Earth, and the establishment of the Midewiwin.
The conception of which languages belong in Mahakiranti — or if Mahakiranti is even a valid group — varies between researchers.
The conception of this term varies between Shiites and Sunnis.

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